Nothing has meaning to my mind except its own actions. Which are within its own control. And it’s only the immediate ones that matter. Its past and future actions too are meaningless.
Meditations x:32
Today I’m struggling. Thinking I should stop running so much. Thinking I’m a failure at work. All flavors of quit present themselves to me for action.
The mind is not so good. I know why: a specific job I need to do. I don’t want to do it but I made the commitment to do it.
Eat your oatmeal. Drink your coffee. Those are the immediate actions.
After that, stride forward to the day. Three cycles of red zone and the rest of the day’s cycles for the task I do not want to do.
Stay in the now. Actions matter, not thoughts (i.e., opinions about what’s going on). Do the work.
My actions will determine my mentality. As the old guys used to say, “You can’t think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.”
I’m one of the old guys now.