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How Your Daily Routine Can Turn Into Your Biggest Enemy
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When routines become a weakness
If you become very attached to your routines, when they get messed up, you get frustrated.
You feel what is almost like withdrawals and you start doubting yourself.
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Routines and resistance
A routine means creating practices, habits and rules that force us to be better. Without it, resistance is given too much room to operate.
Routines are essential in the battle with doubt, chaos and laziness.
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Discipline is a form of freedom
Left unsupervised, however, it becomes a form of tyranny.
The ability to rotate from routine to routine, discipline to discipline, according to the needs of the day and the moment is very important.
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