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Distraction

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Whenever we feel anxious or unsettled, perhaps, when we are worried about something then the mind goes into overdrive and we imagine fates worse than death.

The best cure for these things is distraction, whatever that may be for each of us. Stick a film on, grab a book, go for a swim, speak with someone, call a friend, go out to the cinema…

If you leave the mind idle, you will simply sit and add more misery and woe, your chimp brain will go to that filing cabinet of past misery and bad outcomes that we all have in our heads and pull out every single file.

A simple distraction will switch the brain off.

Effort

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We are told that there is a direct link between effort and outcomes.

Generally, we believe that more effort equals a better result.

This is only true if what we are putting effort into has a meaningful purpose for us.

We sometimes can put a lot of effort into something because we think that we are doing the right thing, often without much thought and out of habit. Or someone else dictates that we need to make more of an effort with something, often something that is important to them and not us.

Being obliged to make an effort works in the short-term, however, beyond that, there is always resistance, resentment and worsening outcomes.

Perhaps better to focus on what is the right thing for us and then put the dedication in.

The closer we get to do the things we love, then it is rarely an effort, more of a passion that you can not be taken away from easily. We then hardly notice time and we are engrossed in something that is ‘labour of love’.