Don't Get Psyched

"Don't lament this and don't get agitated." - Marcus Aurelius 

• There's that feeling we get when something happens. It's all over now. All is lost. What follows are complaints and pity and misery - the impotent struggle against something that's already occurred. Why bo...

Positive thinking tends to separate situations in terms of good and bad.

First, you think something is bad, then you have to actively think it is less bad, but you always know you are fooling yourself. You don't have to go through life labeling what happens to you. Don't pick up that usel...

... all that happens is that you'll have to buy or borrow the item, if you ever wanted/needed it. That's it.

There might be some costs to that, but the costs of keeping that item exist too: it might cost you to root through to find what you need, stress and guilt when you see ...