During one of my recent runs, I was thinking about how ways of broadening my own self-love. Instinctively, my mind started circulating through the characteristics I like about myself and how this makes me feel. And then I caught myself.
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A lot of the work we do on ourselves revolves around actions and results. We want different results, and experts and guidance point us to the actions we can take to achieve them.
What would be more irrational: someone invents a problem out of this air, forgets they did that and then puts a lot of effort into solving it; or someone causes a problem and then decides they are the best person to resolve it?
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If the horse is too big for the rider, does the rider need a smaller horse or better skills? If you’re falling short of standards you set for yourself, should you lower your standards or upgrade your skills?
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We have three broad relationships in life: with ourselves, with other people, and with the world. The latter two are functions of the former. The relationship we have with ourselves creates our relationships with other people and the world. When we change the way we relate to ourselves, we change the person that we are.
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Why do we procrastinate rather than work toward fulfilling on their dreams? Why are we okay with having an okay life and don’t feel inspired to create a great life? Why are we not taking action to build a bigger, brighter, bolder life—full of opportunity?
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Self-sabotage, ironically, is a search for safety. But our need for safety is proportional to our lack of safety, which rests on our misconceptions and ill- founded assumptions that we won’t be safe.
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It is comforting to think that life doesn’t happen in chaotic bursts of randomness, but is instead governed by an intelligent organising force.
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Our normal approach to resolving our problems and concerns is to overcome them. But this often makes them persist.
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Thinking about what is true, and what is real, what is fictitious and illusory helps bring some perspective as we ponder how we spend our time and what’s valuable to us.
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