The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills –self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most– are the foundation for self-control.
More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.
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Roy T. Bennett
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
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Steve Maraboli
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
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Fred Rogers
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
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David Mamet
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for...
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Tina Fey
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Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
Self-awareness: the ability to realize what we are doing as we do it, and understand why we are doing it.
The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills –self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most– are the foundation for self-control.
The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
