A piece of wisdom from
November 17, 2019 · Sunday
The quote
“You can keep going for years on willpower and caffeine. The body keeps the score, and one day it sends the bill. Pay the smaller bill now.”
— paraphrased Bessel van der Kolk · Burnout
The concept
Atomic Habits
Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems. Atomic Habits is the science of how identity, environment, and four laws of behaviour change combine to make small actions compound into a different person, …
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Atomic Habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 18.78
यत्र योगेश्वरः कृष्णो यत्र पार्थो धनुर्धरः। तत्र श्रीर्विजयो भूतिर्ध्रुवा नीतिर्मतिर्मम॥
“Wherever there is Krishna, the lord of yoga, and wherever there is Partha, the wielder of the bow — there will be prosperity, victory, abundance, and sound morality. This is my conviction.”
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