365 Days With Self-Discipline: 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success


Day 347: On Enduring Your Tyrants



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365 Days With Self-Discipline 365 Life-Altering Thoughts on Self-Control, Mental Resilience, and Success by Martin Meadows (z-lib.org).epub

Day 347: On Enduring Your Tyrants

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never

will.  Find  out  just  what  any  people  will  quietly  submit  to,  and  you  have

found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed

upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or

blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of

those whom they oppress.

—Frederick Douglass

 

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Likewise,  the  limits  of  problems  in  your  life  are  determined  by  your

tolerance of them. If you have a slight pain in your little toe, you probably

aren’t going to go see the doctor, but multiply the pain by a factor of five

and you’ll be at the doctor’s office in a split second!

Think  in  the  same  way  about  your  bad  habits  or  any  other  harmful

actions  of  yours.  If  the  perceived  pain  (negative  consequences)  is  weak,

you’ll most likely continue to tolerate it for as long as it doesn’t increase.

Intensify the pain, and you’ll start looking for solutions.

There are two ways to inspire you to give up negative behaviors:

1.  The  pain  caused  by  your  negative  behaviors  intensifies  by  itself.

One  day  you  realize  that  the  problem  has  grown  to  such  proportions  that

you  must  do  something  about  it.  For  example,  your  negative  nutritional

habits  lead  to  a  heart  attack  or  failing  to  improve  your  self-confidence

makes you a loner without any friends .

This is not a good way to deal with negative behaviors, because you’re

letting the problem grow uncontrollably until it poses a big risk in your life.

2.  Intensifying  the  pain  by  making  yourself  aware  of  how  deep  the

pain  goes.  Instead  of  ignoring  the  pain  and  keeping  it  running  in  the

background,  you  tune  in  to  it  and  focus  on  all  of  its  consequences.  Make

them  bigger  and  assume  they  will  get  soon  get  worse.  Use  the  negative

visualization to inspire the change.

For example, once you notice you’re gasping for air after climbing a

set of stairs, assume that it’s the first sign of an incoming rapid deterioration

of health. New symptoms will soon follow, and each will be stronger than




the previous one. The slight discomfort you have now is only the beginning.

Amplify  its  message  and  act  now  while  you  still  can.  Don’t  ignore  it  by

thinking that you can forget about it for now and you will address it later if

it gets worse.

Unless you can convince yourself how far-reaching and dangerous the

consequences  of  your  behaviors  can  be  in  the  long  term,  you  won’t  act.

Think  of  any  negative  behaviors  of  yours  as  tyrants:  to  what  extreme

measures must they go before you stop enduring their oppression?





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