… checking off tasks on our never-ending to-do lists, this overwork strategy will ultimately fail us. Even well-intentioned self-care activities such as taking a warm bath or taking time to mediate ultimately don’t address the root of the problem. After all, taking time to exercise, meditate, or do yoga only adds more things to our already busy schedules.
…d influences our decisions while supporting a self-perpetuating mental cycle — a rat race of sorts. Our belief systems often compound upon one another. As our brain seeks to create a consistent storyline, it looks to make sense of the world by paying attention to those things that support our existing beliefs and disregarding stuff in the environment that doesn’t. Our tacit assumptions about life and success become rigid and dogmatic. We no longer see our beliefs for what they are: moldable, glorified opinions of the world. We see them as truth.