Getting Your Life in Shape.

1. What are you really thinking about today?

—As you think, so shall you become.??~Bruce Lee

Perhaps the most basic statement of how we work. Think about what you are thinking today. What do those thoughts say about you? About your life? And how well do they really match your plans for your life and your image of yourself?

2. Simplify.

—It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.??~Bruce Lee

—If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you??ll never get it done.??~Bruce Lee

If you want to improve your life then it's tempting to want to add more. One problem with this may be that you don't really have the time or energy to do more though. And so your efforts to improve become short-lived.

Adding more and more just creates more stress and anxiety. Removing clutter and activities, tasks and thoughts that are not so important frees up time and energy for you to do more of what you really want to do.

3. Learn about yourself in interactions.

—To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.??~Bruce Lee

The one person that is the hardest to get to really know may be yourself. Studying yourself while you are alone may result in some insights. But it's also likely to produce a lot of made up thought loops and doubts in your mind. A good way to really learn more about yourself is study yourself in interactions with other people. How people react and act in these interaction can over time teach you a lot. And what you think and how you react can perhaps teach you even more.

4. Do not divide.

—Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.??~Bruce Lee

This is a very useful and powerful thought. It is also one that obviously is hard to live by. Why? because the ego loves to divide and find ways to —add more?? to itself. It want's to feel better than someone else. Or more clever. Or prettier. Or cooler. Or wiser.

5. Avoid a dependency on validation from others.


—I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you??re not in this world to live up to mine.??~Bruce Lee


—Showing off is the fool??s idea of glory.??~Bruce Lee


The ego wants to add because it thinks it's not enough. One way of doing that is by craving validation from others. We want to feel smart, pretty, successful and so on. And the validation makes you feel good for a while. But soon you need a new fix.


And the problem with being dependent on validation from other people is that you let other people control how you feel. This creates a rollercoaster of emotion in your life.

6. Be proactive.


—To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.??~Bruce Lee


It's easy to get locked into a reactive mindset. You just follow along with whatever is happening. You do what the people around you do. You react to whatever is going on.


And so you get lost in your circumstances. This way of thinking doesn't feel too good. You tend to feel powerless and like you are just drifting along.


A more useful and pleasurable way of living is to be proactive.


7. Be you.

—Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.??

Just being yourself is a hard thing to do. You may do it sometimes. And other times you may forget or fall back into old thought patterns. Or you may imitate someone else.

And that comes through too. And it may work.

But believe that being the real you will work better. Because there the genuine you is shining through.



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Please add your thoughts on changing your life for the better.

Posted by everevolvingepithet
Nice list.🙂

thanks 🙂

You needed to read an article to discover that which common sense tries to tell you all the time? 😛

Posted by BoomShakalakaBoom
You needed to read an article to discover that which common sense tries to tell you all the time? 😛

well,well,well! My virgo friend 😛 Always trying to get a rise out of me...... how it going?

hello ram boi! Im on the verge of a mental breakdown lol not really, Im just restless cause all I can think of is holidays and those are coming next week 😛 hows you mate?

Nice man. Im good....Just doing dangerous stuff until school starts again. still with the cap girl?

Danger Soap huh? you probably grew up watching Jackass/Wildboyz, I love those shows!

Yeah Im still with the cappy, 2 and half years now..who would have thought?

LOL naa more like drag racing and other stuff.

I just laugh at them. Im not that dumb 😛

wow! 2 1/2...... nice man and still going strong. Thats awesome.