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el límite entre no sobreesforzarse y caer en la mediocridad radica en nuestra capacidad para discernir cuándo es necesario aplicar esfuerzo y dedicación para alcanzar nuestros objetivos, y cuándo es apropiado aceptar un estándar menos riguroso. Significa cultivar la autodisciplina y la autoconciencia para reconocer nuestras fortalezas y limitacione

remember to spend your time with positive people who support your ambitions.

But for some INFJs it meant suddenly leaving their old church and joining a new one. Or traveling alone to a foreign country they had never visited before. Or withdrawing completely from the world for a while and severing relationship connections that had been entrenched for years.

Sometimes it’s OK just to read whatever seems most fun. Spending half an hour reading something interesting, moving, awe-inspiring or merely amusing might be worth doing, not just to improve who you become in the future – though it might do that too – but for the sake of that very half hour of being alive.

Midcareer faculty members report feeling irrelevant, isolated, bored with academic work, and frustrated with the monotony of administrative tasks. When combined together, these conditions are a potent contributor to burnout.

Accept the past as unchangeable.

The more you organize your life around not addressing the things that make you anxious, the more likely they are to develop into serious problems – and even if they don’t, the longer you fail to confront them, the more unhappy time you spend being scared of what might be lurking in the places you don’t want to go. It’s ironic that this is known, in

Don't you think there are two great things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let's have both if we can, but let's be sure of having one or the other.

Steve Chandler writes. They don’t see ‘that leaving things unfinished is what’s causing the low levels of energy.’ (He suggests spending one day robotically completing as much unfinished business as you can: ‘Notice at the end of that day how much energy you’ve got. You’ll be amazed.’)