Beware...It May Be A Vice
If taken too far, anything that is good can turn bad. Virtue can quickly turn into a vice. If you’re a person focused on their health, this is a good thing. However, when you start to judge friends around you on what they eat, well, that’s bad. If you’re focused on paying down debt, you look at those you know with debt differently.
Routines as Ryan Holiday explains are meant to make you more productive and resilient. Not dependent, fragile, or superior to others while there. To many, routines are meant to keep the world from collapsing. So when things don’t get done exactly when you want, because that’s your routine, you’re thrown off balance.
Virtues are things you value and are a way of living. Yet, anything if taken too far may not be a good thing.
I know, as this has happened to me in the past.
What you think is working for you can dangerously be the thing that prevents you from getting where you want to go. So remember, be flexible. Routines are great. The way you want to live is fantastic. However, do not be so stuck to them that you cannot operate without it or when what you hold near and dear to your heart is challenged. Or stretched. So you want to wake up early and work out or meditate. But you get that phone call that makes you rush out of your home before hand. A disciplined mind will say, I’ll work out after. I’ll meditate when I get back. Or, today I’ll skip it. Tomorrow I’ll meditate for longer.
Have a routine for when you travel. Have a routine for home. Have a more basic routine, an emergency routine that you have, when emergency strikes. That can be a book to read while the doctors get back to you or you wait for the tow truck to get your car. It may be a notebook you write your feelings in. Or it could be a mini breathing exercise in the parking lot, elevator or stairwell.
Recently I wrote about routine. How it can certainly help you achieve many things. I hope you find it useful and helpful.
Thought Provoking Questions : What discipline or routine do you have? Can you live when it gets put to the test? How will you overcome your boundaries being tested and pushed?
Dan Roman is a writer that releases a daily meditation. A quick read. Sharing wisdom and asking thought-provoking questions. Influenced by the obstacles, success and failures in life and of others. Using history, books, current events, philosophy, and ancient wisdom. These writings are actionable, thought-provoking, designed to make your life better.
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