Tag: mindful
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What are you accumulating?
“What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.”
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Wait ten minutes
“While we can’t control the feelings and thoughts that pop into our heads, we can control what we do with them.” – Nir Eyal
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Wonder leads to wisdom
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates Do you ever feel like you have lost your sense of wonder? Sometimes it feels like the “requirements” of modern-day life are beating down any sense of wonder. We would like to sit around and wonder, but who has time? We are piled up with endless responsibilities, from…
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Caught in the past and future
“If you’re not mindful, you might spend much of your day feeling like you’re fleeing a burning building or swimming to dry land after a shipwreck.” Sam Harris We spend much of our time thinking about the past and future. We can’t change what happened in the past, although we can learn from it. And…
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During your lowest moment today
“As you go about your day today, see if you can identify your lowest moment. The point in time when you are least happy, least in touch with how good your life is, or can be, most agitated, or contracted, or worried. And in that moment, see if you can bring to mind one thing…
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Choose your inputs wisely
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn Be mindful of what is influencing your thinking during these challenging times. It’s easy to get sidetracked down a path or fear reading news or social media for eight hours a day, or maybe settling into binge-watching whole seasons…
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Release the non-essential
It’s not the daily increase, but the decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” BRUCE LEE Western society generally promotes the idea of accumulating more. Advertising and marketing messages bombard us. The common thought seems to be earn more and spend more. It’s all about visual cues of “success” through a bigger house, a nicer car…