An individual at some point in time starts dwelling into himself for existential questions. While this process either drives you or slows you down. I’ve often found that it’s easier to drive yourself when you have a timetable to follow. Remember ? during our school days we knew exactly what we had to do the next day, and this gave our day to day lives some kind of purpose. Also this simple task of making a timetable helps in increasing focus. We can also introspect what went wrong and correct it based on whether we followed the time table or not.
For me personally the turning point was when i started reading atomic habits by james clear. It opened my eyes to the power of habits. One of the writings in that book which hit me hard was the ‘spiraling of bad habits’, he mentions that everybody has some inner bad habit and in order to stop that we must not do another bad habit after we perform the 1st one. For example if i’ve eaten a lot of outside food already , then it’s better to avoid the ice cream as desert and rather go home and drink some hot water. This process has internally made a feedback loop and it helps in tracing what went wrong. Because bad habit is a bad regret cycle and because of that regret we often perform another bad habit.
All said and done, I believe that the person who has found his life’s true meaning often will have this process ingrained over time. The most important step is the process and meaning will follow.
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