7 Ways to Destroy Adversity

Reinforce what I find good in life, what I need to protect and save.

• Embracing a sense of duty involves reinforcing the positive aspects of life and actively protecting and preserving what matters most to us.

↪ Find what gives you a push in life. (Family › Purpose › Growth)

↪ Internalize & Make it a part of you, what stays with you life long.

↪ Set Goals/System - Fuel Your Discipline/Motivation Around It.

Not the motivation discipline, the kid discipline.

• Punish yourself when you don't achieve your targets.

Be your own Sargent, make yourself do 50/100 pushups.

✔ Positive punishment, in behavioral psychology, involves the addition of an aversive stimulus to decrease the likelihood of a behavior

✔ Positive reinforcement—rewarding desired behaviors—rather than punishment, as it tends to be more effective in promoting long-term behavioral changes and maintaining a positive mindset

Stoicism is also a mindset that's based on the idea that your mind determines your perceptions. Stoics believe that the problem is not the external world, but your internal world.

• Negative Visualization: We must always try to picture the worst that could happen – and then remind ourselves that the worst is survivable

✘ Pessimism: Broader attitude characterized by a consistently negative outlook on life

Do not confuse both. Stoic's aim to promote gratitude and resilience while pessimism maintains a negative outlook on life with hopelessness and a negative mindset.

"Struggle & Success come hand in hand"

• Trauma is growth, don't use it to consume you or destroy you.

It's volatility in your life and in your world whenever a situation occurs.

➛ Ex. Family member dies. (logically it's easier, emotionally it hits harder)

✘ - Cry about it, start complaining, use vices to forget, ruining your life, never healing.

✔ - Cry about it, send respects to their hearts, cry about it again, live up to their will and use The Watcher concept for now they are watching you.

*If you are going through this, I believe in you, even when no one will.*