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Energy leaks
Clutter. Noise. Toxic bosses. Not taking my health seriously beyond vanity. Reaching for sugar to soothe. Solving these problems can save you from draining your energy just coping with your default reality because it’s standard practice. Read that again.
Clutter. Noise. Toxic bosses. Not taking my health seriously beyond vanity. Reaching for sugar to soothe. Solving these problems can save you from draining your energy just coping with your default reality because it’s standard practice. Read that again.
Why We Avoid the Things That Make Us the Happiest
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Nietzsche said to "Never trust a thought you had indoors." bc small spaces = small thinking and depression is identical to staying inside all day
Daniel Kazandjiansubstack.commy anti-burnout guide
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The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.” - Cheryl... See more
Your family can push your buttons because they helped install them.
When you respond differently, you break the stimulus-response pattern
They expect the old you to show up.
You're not required to deliver.
Dr. Dominic Ngsubstack.comnow I read Palestinian poets like Mahmoud Darwish.
If hope is a talent, I’m not sure I am very skilled at it. But it is a skill worth developing.
“Hope is not the opposite of despair,” he writes. “It is a talent.” And “suffering is not a talent” but a test of it. And indifference is “one aspect of hope”.
If hope is a talent, I’m not sure I am very skilled at it. But it is a skill worth developing.