3 2 1 for the week

[mizzou7016]

3-2-1: On creating the conditions for joy, how to go to hell, and the simple way to clarify your thinking

read on JAMESCLEAR.COM | MARCH 7, 2024

Happy 3-2-1 Thursday!

3 Ideas From Me

I.

"You can go to hell without moving an inch, just focus on what you lack.

You can taste heaven without leaving earth, just rejoice in what you have."

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II.

"The simplest way to clarify your thinking is to write a full page about whatever you are dealing with and then delete everything except the 1-2 sentences that explain it best."

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III.

"The reason people get good ideas in the shower is because it's the only time during the day when most people are away from screens long enough to think clearly. The lesson is not to take more showers, but rather to make more time to think."

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2 Quotes From Others

I.

Poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire explains how great ideas arise:

"Inspiration is merely the reward for working every day."

Source: Curiosites Esthetiques (1868)

II.

A tiny poem from Emily Dickinson, written on the back of an envelope:

"In this short Life

That only lasts an hour

How much – how little – is

Within our power"

Source: Poem 1287

1 Question For You

When have I felt most joyful this year and what steps can I take to recreate those conditions?

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Until next week,

James Clear

Author of Atomic Habits and keynote speaker

p.s. Try putting your phone down for an hour, you'll love it...

[Vonus5591]

shower/bath time only time I relax and aches and pains seem slightly less - do you think about work or home in the shower - wow - but no time to relax?

[mizzou7016 in reply to Vonus5591]

my brain is always going nonstop 1000mph....usually about 200 different things...do the best that I can but my mind usually never quits

[Vonus5591]

heaven and hell - yes but same old me and haven't changed - although thinking I reading more and still trying to be good little person in world whereas I want to unleash my old terrible lazy self and then I am ok having released thoughts - bad me to good me

I'm the devil or angel ?- I hope I get through life

[SayNOtoPanic]

Great ones!!! The only thing with the shower is when you take the anxious mind in there with you and it’s just running non stop. Have def gotten better at just letting the thoughts be. Thanks mizzou.