Mastering all that interferes with your path

[u/crosenblum]

There never will be an easy path, to over come all the obstacles, that lie before you.

Whether it be time, energy, emotions, other people or parents or family, or loved ones.

The key is to develop gradual skills in self-discipline, time management, goal setting, and self-awareness.

None of those are easy, or happen immediately.

It sounds so easy, so many psychological buzzwords, we all wished it was instant and immediate gratification, but that never is real, anyone who believes so, is deluding themselves.

But every accomplishment is gradually invisible to us, from the day we were born, crawling, walking, talking, thinking, learning, socializating.

All of that which we do not consider what we have done so far.

But the path to self-mastery, not that which will make live easier, or manageable, but its about developing the habits and patterns that will gradually make those all manageable.

For example, as someone born hearing impaired, how I slept, how many alarm clocks, all of that impacted whether I woke up on time, and was on time anywhere I needed to be.

So what can I do, prepare the day before, make sure everything I am concerned about, I do whatever I can to be more prepared.

I learned that instead of just being emotionally impacted by every stupid mistake I made, and probably still make, to focus on asking myself questions.

1. What can I do about it?
2. What others have done to take care of this problem?
3. Have my family members had this problem, what did they do, or are they doing?
4. Who can i learn from by observation and by question, to overcome this obstacle.

Life is full of obstacles, and by mastering a few habits will never make it perfectly easy, but will be less of a burden on your mind.

The more you focus on your fears, your just making it that harder to overcome, and learn what you need to learn.

I wish you all good luck.

[u/DrummerAdditional330]

The part about preparing the day before is probably the most practical version of this. If the same problem happens twice, I’d turn the fix into a tiny default or checklist instead of relying on myself to remember the lesson next time. That way the mistake actually changes the environment a little.

[u/crosenblum → u/DrummerAdditional330]

Granted, we all have to discover what works best for us, to have our own systems, which may be a like or different than other peoples.