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This past year I have been living my life in routine; following the same simple routines.
Habits can be bad or they can be good. When I wash dishes and unload/load the dishwasher, or when I wash or dry laundry, or when I sweep the floor, those are good habits. When I spend $20 at the circle k after midnight, or when I order out and spend $45 on my credit card, that is a bad habit.
When I open Facebook and scroll through reels and get lost in nonsense before I have even gotten out of bed, that is a bad habit. When I make breakfast and sit down, open up Hive and write a post, that is a good habit. Is this good for me? Or is this bad for me? We should often ask.
Will I regret this choice later? Buying McDonalds sounds great, but when all the fries have been eaten and the burger wrappers remain, and you have put it in your stomache, is there regret?
I went to the grocery store the other day, to get a 'cheap snack' but still end up paying $22. I got some pepperoni sticks, the fresh and juicy kind, not the dried up stuff they sell at corner stores. I also picked up a Family size bag of chips, and a $2 can of strawberry brisk.
Although it was $20, if I can make it last a few days, then that improves the expense value. I only ate a few pepperoni sticks that night, and then I diced the remaining pepperoni sticks into thirds, and put them in two ziplock bags. The bag of chips, also remains with a third of the contents remaining.
Every day that I don't spend money is essentially 'profit' in my reciept tracking. When I stay home and live a simple life, instead of trying to go out and party every night like I did since college, things begin to fall into place. A lot of the problems we have in life, most of them actually, are created by our past choices. And we just keep running forward, making the same choices without adjusting course, not realizing the stress we feel is actually something we can resolve. Stress means you can take action, and you aren't. There is something that can be done, but can't be. And anxiety feels like you don't know what to do, and that uncertainty lingers.
Action kills fear, and doing things beats thinking. I used to think that thinking was a super power, we are taught to take notes and remember facts and pass tests, use that thinker. But when you get older you also find that the thoughts we think become forms themselves. And we believe something so fervently about our life or about ourself, and it might be completely based on one idea. This idea may have been true or accurate at the time, or it might not have. But our belief in thoughts about things, rather than things themselves, gives them another form. A monstrous form.
It's just in our head though, the thoughts we think are just momentary and they can be let go.
Choose different thoughts. Choose better thoughts. Think about what you want, instead of repeating the dwelling in anxiety or stress. You are more than one hurdle, one problem, one obstacle to overcome. You are not incapable of changing, improving, solving problems, using your two hands.
One thing at at time. One day at a time. Live the live you are living, and FEEL how good it is. Be grateful for every little useless thing you have. We are so lucky, and yet if we don't take the time to feel how happy and grateful we are for everything, it just becomes clutter. Today, I am going to take some time to organize and tidy up my desk area, my closet, my livingroom and my kitchen. And I am going to go for a walk to the YMCA. Yep, I am going to do it right away. It is mid day and there's no reason for this not to be the very hour I decide to pick up a good habit where I left off a few weeks ago. What are you going to do today?
@Darkflame