Have you ever set out to start a new habit or goal, but found your willpower lacking?
Many new ventures are foiled by the morning email habit, for example — we want to exercise or write or meditate, but we can’t resist checking out email for just a minute … and then we’ve gotten lost, down the rabbit hole.
How can we build the willpower to beat these bad habits? (more…)
Post written by Leo Babauta.
I’m often asked how you can start doing work you love — how you can make a living doing something you’re passionate about.
I don’t profess to have all the answers, but the answer for me has been fairly simple:
Do one thing really well.
People want a more comprehensive answer than that, but in my experience, if you learn to do this, the rest will follow.
How much of your stress, frustration, disappointment, anger, irritation, pissed-offedness comes from one little thing?
Almost all of it comes from your expectations, and when things (inevitably) don’t turn out as we expect, from wishing things were different.
We build these expectations in our heads of what other people should do, what our lives should be like, how other drivers should behave … and yet it’s all fantasy. It’s not real.
And when reality doesn’t meet our fantasy, we wish the world were different.
Here’s a simple solution:
Take your expectations, and throw them in the ocean. (more…)