147: No paralysis with order, structure and discipline during your execution

I feel many things are happening inside my head at the moment that I’m getting paralyzed. So, I was thinking — which I usually do a lot. A structure or at least structural thinking combined with discipline can help you feel less helpless.

Inner order and applied discipline in your execution are the key elements when you feel overwhelmed by too many things. Yes, it can be the case that you have too many things going on in your life and you need to let go some of some. But it can also be that you first need to organize the things you’re trying to process in your head.

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146: Only tired in your head

Feeling tired is a mental issue, in other words: Tiredness happens inside your head. You are tired because you think you are tired. It also means that you can overcome feeling tired by thinking you’re not.

Obviously, you can be really tired because of lack of sleep. But I’m referring to the mental fatigue you experience when your moral is low, lazy to start or slow in your execution (slower than you like).

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145: You are no better than a dog

I’m a fan of individualism with sympathies for libertarianism („Libertarismus“). I like the responsibility an individual has to build a strong democracy.

Yet, I want to make you aware of the possible limitations of yourself with regard to your recurring patterns of behavior. When I learned about the fact [1] that you react to particular situations in a certain way and you have a way of doing things, your behavior is foreseeable. You’re like a dog who stems from a particular race whose patterns I can look up on an online encyclopedia.

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