It’s a good practice to learn how to do without. Particularly things that become a habit. TV, Facebook, Youtubes, cell phones, coffee, etc. Periodically just do without them for a while. Cut that dependence so that you know that you can, so that you know you are not a slave to these non-essentials — you control them, they don’t control you.
Category: Philosophy
Challenge in Life
Find your dream and pursue it. If you don’t have a destination, no wind is a fair wind.
“A Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with a Single Step”
Try to improve yourself every day with small changes. You will be totally transformed in a year.
A Life Worth Living
Don’t Let Life Pass You By
Do you frequently experience ataraxia during the day? If not, you are letting life slip by.
How to Improve Quality of Life
Don’t be in a hurry. Don’t be in such a rush. Slow it down. Particularly when doing tasks that you don’t want to do. Do those carefully in a more deliberate manner.
Preferred Indifference
The ancient Stoics divided earthly activities between those they could control and those they couldn’t, with all the shades in-between. For those aspects of life that were in the tweener zone, Stoics recommended an attitude of “preferred indifference,” for the world could as easily squench these tweeners without any recourse by the individual.
The three conspicuous tweeners were: fame, wealth, and health, for one is not entirely in control of any of these, such that life can pivot on each mercilessly…the sudden public attack that defames you utterly, the stock market collapse that wipes out your assets, the hidden aneurysm that leaves you prostrate and just barely clinging to life.
So one should not hold tight to any of these tweeners, but rather have an attitude of preferred indifference — you prefer to be well endowed with all three, but can still be indifferent if they are taken from you, rather than be in a state of shock and despair, for there is an element in all three clearly beyond your control.
Best of Times
When was the peak in your life? Why?
I?
Ask yourself the difficult but essential question, Who am I?
Stress
Less is more.
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