7 Important Life Lessons to Never Forget

“Decide on something that you can do and that you will do. This is how to transform your life–by taking small steps. But you should actually do it–it should not pop up again.”

—Sadhguru

The mind seems to be a rather dynamic entity - its mysterious workings have cast a spell on scientists, spiritual seekers, and even poets and novelists. Mark Twain once jested, “I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up”. Though we freely use such terms as “Just spend a minute to identify at least one thing in your life that is not necessary and kill that today. When I say “kill,” don’t start thinking about your boss, mother-in-law or neighbor. You must kill something about you that is unnecessary for your life. Something like “I will kill my anger” would be too general and this is not something that you can achieve by determination–this requires consciousness.

However, for most people, the question is less about what the mind is, and more about what type of Identify something specific that you will be better off without, where you can take a concrete step today–it does not matter how small it is. Choose one specific little thing that you will not do anymore, no matter what. “I will not be angry” would be a lie, because this is not yet in your control but it could be something like, “I will not speak angry words.”

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