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



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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 322: On Subtraction

We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up

with  coffee  and  cool  down  with  alcohol  and  sleeping  pills.  Faced  with

relentless  demands  at  work,  we  become  short-tempered  and  easily

distracted.  We  return  home  from  long  days  at  work  feeling  exhausted  and

often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one

more demand in an already overburdened life.

—Jim Loehr

 

323

It  makes  me  exhausted  just  to  read  this  quote,  let  alone  imagine  that

it’s possible to achieve any kind of positive results while living such a life.

If  you’re  overburdened  and  feel  like  you  have  no  control  over  your

life,  it’s  time  to  change  your  life  philosophy  from  the  philosophy  of



addition to the philosophy of subtraction . Let me explain…

The philosophy of addition is thinking that more is better. It means that

you’re  afraid  to  miss  out  on  opportunities  and  that  you  say  yes  to

everything, worried that saying no will make you unpopular or that you’ll

appear selfish or lazy.

You constantly add and add, thinking that it’s through adding that your

life gets better. Of course, in a certain way it does. The more you learn, the

better  you  are.  Generally  speaking,  the  more  money  you  have,  the  easier

your life is.

However,  this  doesn’t  apply  to  obligations  and  your  calendar.  The

more  tasks  you  have  in  your  schedule  and  the  more  duties  you  need  to

attend to, the more difficult it is to stop, reflect, and decide what deserves

your attention and what doesn’t.

For this reason, I suggest adopting the philosophy of subtraction. You

believe  that  less  is  more.  You  think  twice  before  you  accept  any  new

responsibilities. You constantly seek to simplify your life and free up your

calendar instead of stacking one task on top of another. You feel proud of

having leisure time instead of feeling guilty about it.

As an exercise for today, think of just one regular task in your schedule

that you could eliminate, in order to make your life less of a burden.




Perhaps  you  can  hire  a  maid  to  save  time  spent  keeping  the  house

clean.


Maybe  you  already  have  enough  money,  but  not  enough  time,  and  it

would make sense to reduce the number of hours spent at work and accept

the trade-off for the sake of your well-being.

Maybe you can move closer to your workplace, or the opposite: start

working at home.

Perhaps it would be a good investment to use the services of a home

meal  delivery  company  and  save  the  time  spent  on  cooking  and  grocery

shopping.

Subtract the unessential from your life to increase your focus on what

is essential, but doesn’t get enough attention because of all the other, less-

important obligations.




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