…Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It’s the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation – do what’s right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It’s central, in fact, to civilization.
— Dr. Roy Baumeister, Ph.D.
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Persevere: To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.
First, the bad news …
When it comes to creating change in your life or achieving your goals, it won’t be easy. You may struggle. It’ll likely take longer than you expect. It’s almost certain that you’ll have setbacks and short-term failures along the way. Especially when it involves creating new habits, developing new skills, or learning new concepts. This helps explain why most people fail to achieve their New Year’s resolutions.
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From Writing FAST by Jeff Bollow
“And the reason you hate writing so much is because you start analyzing your work before you’re done pouring it onto the page. Your Left-brain won’t let your Right-brain do it’s job … Your Right-brain gets the words on the page. The Left-brain makes them sing.”
From Escaping Into the Open by Elizabeth Berg:
“There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a part-time registered nurse, a wife, and a mother when I began publishing. I’d taken no classes, had no experience, no knowledge of the publishing world, no agent, no contacts … Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.”
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Introduction
At my worst, I was watching six hours of television a day — nearly three months of my life, every single year. TV wasn’t just a bad habit. It was how I distracted myself from the fears, problems, and challenges I was refusing to deal with in my life. This is how I broke free, and the five strategies that made it stick.
Key Takeaways
- TV addiction is often a symptom of something deeper, such as lack of purpose or vision in life, or fears you’re not facing.
- Tracking your viewing time in writing helps you see just how much of your life you’re actually losing to this habit.
- An inspiring, written vision is the most powerful long-term antidote — when you feel a sense of mission, distraction loses its pull.
- Small changes to your routines (e.g. an earlier bedtime, a morning routine) compound fast and help you reclaim hours you didn’t know you had.
- You don’t quit TV — you replace it with a life worth living fully.
- Physical exercise is a “keystone habit” — people who start exercising consistently watch less TV almost automatically.
Nobody on their deathbed ever wished they’d spent more time watching television.
Life is short, and there are too many things that are more important and fulfilling than sitting in front of a television for hours on end. That’s not to suggest you should stop watching TV altogether, but I’ve come to see it as something best placed at the edge of life, rather than the center.
…How I Overcame TV Addiction, Reclaimed My Life, and Gained Two Months Per YearRead More »
Also see: How I Overcame TV Addiction and Reclaimed My Life.
“The more television you watch, the more you see people who seem richer than you. Research shows that you will then overestimate the income of real people, and underestimate the value of your own. So the more television you watch, the more dissatisfied with yourself you become. You’ll also spend more money: By one estimate, you’ll spend an extra four dollars per week for every hour of television you watch. Of course, television is about drama, which means violence, infidelity, and amoral behavior, and you end up overestimating the frequency of these things in real life. You may conclude that the world is less safe than it actually is, and decide that you’d better stay home and watch more television.”
— From Rewire by Richard O’Connor
“The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
…“People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it’s some sort of art medium, and it’s not. Others think it’s an entertainment medium, it’s not that either. It’s an advertising medium. It’s a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.”
— Bill Maher
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Remember always that you are just a visitor here, a traveler passing through. Your stay here is but short and the moment of your departure unknown.
None can live without toil and a craft that provides your needs is a blessing indeed. But if you toil without rest, fatigue and weariness will overtake you and you will be denied the joy that comes from labor’s end.
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