Inspiration from Brittany Packnett, Marcus Aurelius, Simon Sinek, and More -
The Simple Dollar
[1]Inspiration from Brittany Packnett, Marcus Aurelius, Simon Sinek,
and More - The Simple Dollar:
Marcus Aurelius on your thoughts and your life
"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. The
soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
Perhaps the single biggest revelation I had during the last ten
years is that I have a ton of control over what I think about, and
what I think about ends up shaping how I feel about a lot of things,
how I react to things, and what I choose to do in life.
An example: if I spend my time thinking negative thoughts about
working out, it's not going to be long before I'm simply completely
uninterested in working out and I'm going to stop any sort of
workout routine. Rather, if I catch myself thinking negative
thoughts about it, I intentionally kill them and start thinking
positive thoughts instead. "This will feel good. This will make me
healthier. This will be fun. Remember how much you enjoyed that
workout a few weeks ago? What did you do during that? Let's recreate
it!" Thinking thoughts like that intentionally gets me more excited
about exercising, makes it go better, and makes me feel better about
it afterwards, and eventually I don't really have those negative
thoughts any more.
This is true for everything. You have so much power over what you
choose to think about things, and if you choose to think negative
thoughts about the better but more challenging things in life,
things will go poorly. Save your negative thoughts for the things
that actually harm you and then let them fly, but give positive
thoughts to the good things in life, like the person who's nice to
you even when you feel grumpy. That person is awesome. Think about
how awesome that person is.
(Via [2]The Simple Dollar)
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https://www.thesimpledollar.com/inspiration-from-brittany-packnett-marcus-aurelius-simon-sinek-and-more/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+thesimpledollar+(The+Simple+Dollar)
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https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=3022
