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Sometimes choices create challenges. When that happens take a few options off the table. Learning how to overcome over-thinking is an essential tool. “Stair stepping” is a technique you can use to simplify decision making. Instead of focusing on a big final outcome, concentrate on small decisions that feel less consequential but that bring you closer to the final destination. – Jay Shetty
A monk decides to meditate alone. Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes, and begins to meditate.
After a few hours of unperturbed silence, he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his.
With his eyes still closed, he feels his anger rising and when he opens his eyes, he is ready to shout at the boatman who dared to disturb his meditation.
But when he opens his eyes he saw that it was an empty boat, not tied up, floating in the middle of the lake…
At that moment, the monk achieves self-realization and understands that anger is within him; it simply needs to hit an external object to provoke it.
After that, whenever he meets someone who irritates or provokes his anger he remembers: “The other person is just an empty boat. Anger is inside me.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
There is a phrase that goes “a rising tide lifts all boats”. This is meant to mean we all do better when we ALL do better. But someone has to start the movement of being better. Will you be the one to begin that wave? – Dad
