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Exercise, meditation and some kind of mindfulness quark: almost all life guides have the same tips ready
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Happy New!
Let's talk about good intentions.
Typically, you can find tips and tricks to help you achieve your New Year's resolutions in all sorts of media at the beginning of the year.
Not here.
Here you will find tips on how to get rid of your resolutions and not torment yourself unnecessarily. Because it starts with the name: One usually speaks of "good" resolutions, but mostly these resolutions are rather well meant and burdensome. The source of guilt, guilty conscience, and stress, they are also known for not being obeyed by any sow.
There is a huge amount of guidebook to help you keep your resolutions, whether it's the beginning of the year or the middle of the year. You could read all of this, but you don't have to, because I've already done this for you. Really. I think I've read or heard almost all of the self-optimization books that have been bestsellers in recent years. And those that didn't become one with good reason. It's a kind of hobby of mine, maybe something you
could call
guilty pleasure
, but I'm not ashamed enough for that.
Because: Once you have familiarized yourself with the subject, you realize that self-optimization is firstly a bottomless pit and, secondly, can easily lead to an embarrassing career bullshit.
I've had New Year's resolutions every year for about half my life, mostly in the direction of "getting up earlier, working more disciplined, doing more exercise."
The usual running gags.
I stopped and it's beautiful.
Last night I slept twelve hours after I had finished listening to an audio book the night before with the title: "The 5 o'clock Club: Create your morning and everything will be possible in your life," by Robin Sharma.
A book so incredibly bad it's a real joy: gruesome style, terrible message, absurd plot.
Incredibly unsympathetic business clowns
I probably hear these audiobooks with the same feeling that other people watch trashy films or reality TV.
There is something purifying about it.
You can't read or hear something like that without thinking: Wait a minute, you jokes, when you've allegedly found the key to success, the path to perfection, the lifehacks for absolute excellence - why are your books so bad?
Why do you write sentences like "Failure is, so to speak, growth in a wolf's clothing"?
Or “Victims have big televisions.
Leaders have large libraries «?
It doesn't have to be!
The principle is similar to our topic here last week: Once you have recognized that a lot of super-rich or famous people live in completely soulless, ugly houses, it is no longer so desirable to become super-rich or famous.
It's similar with self-optimization literature: once you've realized that the people who want to help you achieve your goals are incredibly unsympathetic business clowns who write absolutely perverse books, you will do anything to avoid such a walking joke to become.
Of course, I understand the people who buy these books, and I don't want to shame anyone who tries to get out of a crisis with self-help literature, because therapy places are rare and life is stressful. In case you are tempted to buy such books: you don't have to, I can summarize them for you in one paragraph.
Because almost all books of the type "How to regulate your life" contain the same tips: Get up early in the morning (at 5 am), make your bed and drink warm water with lemon juice. Create a morning routine that includes exercise, meditation, and some kind of mindfulness quark. Take a cold shower. Exercise every day, keep your home minimalist, do intermittent fasting. Do not use up your decision-making energy to come up with an outfit in the morning, but rather wear the same thing every day. Like Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama!
Read and imitate rich people's biographies.
Get all electronic devices out of the bedroom, don't do anything on social media, quit alcohol and cigarettes.
»Visualize« your goals (handwritten!).
Eat something with fish and avocado for lunch.
No bread!
Improve yourself every day and annoy everyone with wanting feedback.
Surround yourself with positive, successful people.
(Say, make friends who are sick, sad, and poor losers.) Quit drinking sugary drinks.
Never drink a coffee to go again and invest the money you save in sustainable ETFs or the start-ups of some coking brats who all look the same.
A suspiciously straight posture
If you do all of these things, your chances are very good that you will become one of those highly optimized slaves of capitalism who believe that "anyone" can "do it." You will then most likely wear a slim-fit shirt or dark blue T-shirt every day, have a suspiciously straight posture and a grin that reveals that you think you are something better, see: roughly all the author photos on the respective books.
If you are unlucky, you can even manage to rearrange your »mindset« (important word) so that you say sentences like: »Poverty is the result of an inner constitution, not an external situation.« (Robin Sharma, »The 5- Uhr-Club «).
Or: »The complexity of your challenge correlates with the ingenuity of your results!
If you're really on fire, everyone comes and wants to stand by the fire! "(Matthew Mockridge:" Your next big thing ")
Or also: »Human capital is my absolute favorite type of investment.« (Natascha Wegelin: »Madame Moneypenny«) Or: »You don't get anything in life for free.
Least of all success. "(Konrad Sewell:" Self-discipline ") Or:" Leave all your illusions behind.
They weigh heavily. "(Yuval Noah Harari:" 21 lessons for the 21st century ")
Or something that is absolutely meaningless like: "Over half of all crises are none at all."
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Passig, Kathrin, Lobo, Sascha
Getting things sorted - without a trace of self-discipline
Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
Number of pages: 288
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Of course, you don't have to become a geek caricature in trying to improve yourself. But the danger is there. At first you just want to jog a little and reduce your screen time and suddenly you're talking about "transformation" and "beliefs" and trying to convince your friends to give up granulated sugar and keep a "bullet journal". Or you become a direct coach, but call yourself a “change expert” or “efficiency trainer”. In the worst case, you keep on optimizing and then tell each time that you have had "another learning" (that is, what you have learned). Unpleasant!
If you say now: “I don't want to change everything, I really just want to do this one thing!
Simply lose five kilos!
And maybe read a book more often! ”- Uh, of course.
But you already know what people look like who "just wanted to do this one cosmetic operation" or "only tried heroin once"?
I just say it!
Self-
optimization is a
slippery slope
;
that can end badly.
There are of course good books in the genre, but only two.
"Getting things sorted - without a trace of self-discipline" by Kathrin Passig and Sascha Lobo and "Magic Cleaning" by Marie Kondo.
But I can also summarize it for you in one sentence: Stop having a guilty conscience and clean up your shit.
May I help you.
