Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
(Anonymous)
Try writing for fun. (!)
So, "why is it so hard to live a disciplined life when it feels so good?" Is the simple question I throw into the living room Monday evening at 9P. To be fair, I am making the time all too late in the day to address my homework which includes "Think of a time you were living as the best version of yourself and note the values I was living at that time". The prompt naturally turned me off because if only it were that simple - I mean, you can see where this is going. Think of a time when were you most happy. Consider what were the values were you honoring at that time. Write those down and consider how you can live those more in your current life, aka - now just do that! However, despite the annoyance of the exercise, it became overshadowed by an emerging sense of gratification and fulfillment. Why? Spending time to answer those (annoying and somewhat predictable) questions was actually quite fulfilling. Not in the sense of the question itself or the intended outco...
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