You’re driving down the road, things are just great. Sun is shining and it’s pre-covid times so everything is just better.
Suddenly some guy who isn’t looking pulls out in front of you and you have to slam on your breaks.
Your $5 tall Starbucks mint jazz tea refresher spills into your cupholder, your shopping bags tip over, and your heart beats too fast for comfort.
You have the right to be angry. But...is it smart to let yourself get angry even just a little bit? How much do we let anger control the way our days, weeks, and months play out?
It might be a lot more than you realize.
Today we are going to talk about anger on the road no matter how small and how it affects your life.
6 Mar 2020
Use Your Future Self for Today's Decisions
Whether it's emotions, difficult things or big life decisions, using your ability to imagine what future-you will care about will help you make sense of the now. The next time you are overcome with anger, embarrassment or fear imagine what you will feel and think about whatever it is that's bothering you in...10 hours...10 days...10 years. This rapidly defuses what otherwise might consume you. The next time you're struggling to complete something physically or mentally difficult, imagine how grateful your future self will be about pushing through and completing that thing. When making life decisions, imagine what your future self might think and allow that to influence your decision. Try utilizing your future self!
5 Mar 2020
The Doom of Seeking Sensational Things
I once gave a book to a friend with high recommendations. They gave the book back a few weeks later and said "sorry, nothing really jumped out at me...I didn't like it." This caused me to stop and think about how much of life one is missing if they are forever fixated on sensational things as opposed to choosing to realize that most of this world and most of life are made up of non-sensational things. If you go through life expecting all important things to jump out at you, you will miss most of what life consists of.
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