The most important skill for getting (and staying) healthy

In 1933, a shocked and frustrated woman named Frau sent a letter to psychologist Carl Jung, asking “how to live”.

(Had no one influenced Instagram to shout mobilizations in it, I guess)

Jung replied:

“Your questions are unanswered because you want to know how you should live. Someone lives as one can.

… If you do with the belief the next and the most necessary thing, you always do something meaning and is intended for fate. ”

They shared the key to life.

They are part of recovery communities such as alcoholic anonymous.

Was even the title of a song in ​Disney’s Frozen 2​.

“The next right thing.”

The review of this story has made me think how much my thoughts on success and progress have changed all these years.

“Success” redefined

I’ve done this Nerd gym for 15+ years.

Millions of people visit the site each year, 50,000+ customers have bought things through NF and our coaches have served 15,000+ 1-in-1 customers.

At that time, I have changed my perspective enough for “success” and “live well”.

I believe that the only path to success required militant discipline after a particular plan. I have never lost a workout and was incredibly proud of it.

It didn’t seem to me how much of a ​privileged and simple life​ I lived, where I was 100% in control of my time.

(Sorry for all parents and carers who read my 25 -year perspective!).

Now that I am 40 years old and I can see the types of people actually Help with Nerd Fitness, I have changed my prospect of success and “live well” quite dramatically.

Success does not happen when we learn how to do everything perfectly, but instead, when we improve to stay in life even when things go bad.

In other words, success learns to be inconsistent consistent. Learning to be good enough for quite some time.

And that means, when life seems chaotic, limiting our focus on “the next right thing”.

Do the next right thing

A ​Recent newsletter​ By writer Oliver Burkeman talked about how he chosen to maintain a little bit of logic in an overwhelming world.

Led me to these suggestions by writer Eckert Tolle:

“What you refer to as your” life “should be more accurately called your” life state “. It is a psychological time: past and future.

… forget about the state of your life for a while and pay attention to your life.

Find the “narrow gate that leads to life”. It’s called now.

Spend your life so far. The state of your life can be full of problems – most life situations are – but find out if you have a problem right now. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now.

You have trouble now;

When we inflate what has already happened and we are horrified for all the things that could happen or should happen in the future …

It’s easy to feel out of control and overwhelmed.

This brings us back to this cliché solution: “The next right thing.”

It’s a cliché just because it’s true.

We can magnify Wayyyyyy and limit our focus to something still under our control. In some cases, Yes, there is a problem right now. And we can just focus on this thing.

But in many other cases, we often worry about all the problems that may be, or the problems outside our control, which prevents us from taking action on the real things we can control.

Burkeman continues:

As to tell myself that I just had to do the next thing … you can always do only the next thing, then the next one, whether you like it or not.

It is a little strange, in fact, to refer to any of these techniques as “limiting your horizons”, as if they were somehow artificially enclosed by limiting yourself.

Really, you just consciously recognize how limited it was always.

We all know how easy it is for us ​overcrowded things​.

And when people feel like a fire, it can help you to reduce the next decision, the minimum goal, and to do the next right thing.

May include a workout or ride, focusing on the next meal by calling our therapist or ​Finally, saying no​ in a commitment.

If “now” is the only time it exists, then “the next right” is the only thing we can really do.

I’m going to do the next right thing for me: take a walk.

-Steve

PS: Maria Popova has ​A wonderful registration for “The Next Right Thing”​ As it concerns her life as a writer who inspired this piece.

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