Building Resilience: Reflective and challenging changes
Mindful Roots: Grounded in Truth, Growing in Health
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Show Notes
God puts people in your life that provide insight to you. A great friend of mine poured so much wisdom into me and introduced me to this, and now passing it on to you all. This has proven to develop strength and resilience within your mental wellbeing.
SMALL CHANGES —> BIG RESULTS.
Challenge: add one rule to your week. Marinate on these principles.
Summary of Principles: LISTEN IN FOR BIBLICAL AND PERSONAL CONTEXT
- Focus on what you can control
- You control how you respond to things
- Ask yourself, "is this essential?"
- Meditate on your morality every day
- Value time more than money/possessions
- You are a product of your habits
- Remember, you have the power to have no opinion
- Own the morning
- Put yourself up for review (Interrogate yourself)
- Don't suffer imaginable troubles (BIBLICAL, Philippians 4:6-7)
- Try to see the good in people (BIBLICAL, Philippians 2:3-4)
- Never be overheard complaining... even to yourself (BIBLICAL, Philippians 2:14-16)
- Two ears, one mouth.. for a reason (Zeno)
- There is always something you can do
- Don't compare yourself to others. (BIBLICAL, 2 Corinthians 10:12)
- Live as if you've died and come back (every minute is a bonus)
- "the best revenge is not to be like that" Marcus Aurelius
- Be strict with yourself and tolerant with others
- Put every impression, emotion, to the test before acting on it
- Learn something from everyone
- Focus on process, not outcomes
- Define what success means to you
- Find a way to love everything that happens (Amor Fati)
- Seek out challenges
- Don't follow the mob
- Grab the "smooth handle"
- Every person is an opportunity for kindness (Seneca)
- Say NO (A LOT)
- Don't be afraid to ask for help
- Find one thing that makes you wiser every day
Stoic Characteristics :
Serene & Confident
Acts reasonably
Focuses on what's in their control
Accepts fate graciously
Unattached to external things
Grateful & Calm
Kind & Generous
Takes full responsibility for their life
Supremely virtuous
Lives in complete harmony
Book reference: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature by Peter Scazzero https://a.co/d/9orqjFN