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About Systems
A system is a set of habits, behaviours and productivity hacks that help us stay consistent and productive. One has to practice self-control by picking a direction and sticking with it, making our long-term goals our focus.
Example: If the long-term goal is being a public speaker, the system can be, taking classes, training people, reading and exercising on a daily basis, using self-control to stay on track.
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Purpose and Self-Control
We need to have a singular drive or pursuit that motivates us in our every breath. Shallow pursuits like some materialistic desires cannot make us demonstrate self-control for long.
If we are completely committed to a high pursuit, it won’t be difficult to exercise self-control.
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Take No Stress
If we look into our daily routine, we will find that a lot is being done by us just to minimize and manage our stress. We wind up our ‘springs’ so much by our commitments and work pressure that we have to unwind by taking vacations and buying stuff.
Another way is to not let that ...
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Moving Away From Disorder
If we do not rest, recover, rebuild, adapt, and restore ourselves using self-control, the natural law of entropy (things and systems naturally move towards disorder) takes over our lives and we start to deteriorate.
This deterioration is so slow that it is unnoticeable. We need to ...
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The Pleasures Of Life
There is a lot of stuff available for us to do that makes us feel better instantly. Watching TV, going to the beach, drinking alcohol, smoking, and almost every other activity that seems pleasurable to us, giving us temporary pleasure in a jiffy. When we keep doing that, the long term effects are...
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Self Control and Eating Healthy
While it’s obvious we need to exhibit a certain amount of self-control while choosing what we put in our bodies, that is not the whole story.
If we educate our bodies and learn about nutrition, longevity and how our individual bodies function, we could be eating a lot heal...
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Self-Control Components
Self-control has two components:
- Our ability to resist temptations
- Our ability to exercise control over our behaviour and emotions.
Self-control plays a key role in our lives, keeping us sane and alive, as we don’t give in to t...
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Benefits Of Group Exercise
- Social exercise provides a sense of autonomy, making us feel more self-reliant.
- It increases connectedness with others and promotes better mental health.
- It makes the process easy and habit-forming, with your friends becoming both your cue and your reward for your actions....
It’s Not About Self-Control
Though self-control certainly plays a part in delaying gratification, using it to completely explain why people can’t stop themselves is both misguided and unhelpful. It's depends on other factors like:
- Trust- It’s only rational to delay gratification if and only i...
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