additive or reductive?
Two posts in one day?!?! OMG what is this 2005? ;)
I'm having some coaching sessions through work, and during one of our explorative exercises I put into words something I haven't before.
I have a reductive path to happiness.
By which I mean, I fundamentally think of myself as a happy person by default. When I'm trying to work out how to make myself more happy in life, I don't see is as adding things to make me more happy (achive X, start doing Y), but more removing the things that block my happiness (stop doing Y, avoid Y). Sometimes I need to do something to achive this, e.g. I need to start meditating to remove chatter and negative future thinking from my mind, but the action always has the 'flavour' to me of refining, uncovering or distilling.
It's kind of funny when thought about in my life with my tendancy to clutter and take on new things.
I'm having some coaching sessions through work, and during one of our explorative exercises I put into words something I haven't before.
I have a reductive path to happiness.
By which I mean, I fundamentally think of myself as a happy person by default. When I'm trying to work out how to make myself more happy in life, I don't see is as adding things to make me more happy (achive X, start doing Y), but more removing the things that block my happiness (stop doing Y, avoid Y). Sometimes I need to do something to achive this, e.g. I need to start meditating to remove chatter and negative future thinking from my mind, but the action always has the 'flavour' to me of refining, uncovering or distilling.
It's kind of funny when thought about in my life with my tendancy to clutter and take on new things.