Thursday, January 2, 2020

Habit: How to keep a resolution (video)

Matt D'Avella, Dec. 31, 2018; Ananda, Dhr. Seven, Jen, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Get help. Spiritual progress is an inside job.
What we need is committment, discipline, and GRIT. That's passion and perseverance combined. Passion gets us started then fails us, so we then switch to perseverance that doesn't need motivation or emotion, just committment. That's the discipline. Get help, a party to be answerable and accountable to. Be a friend, and you'll have a friend. Keep at it until the habit forms. Then it gets easier. Join a group if necessary. The more resources we have, the richer and more successful we get.

Get your New Year's resolutions to stick
Matt D'Avella (patreon.com/mattdavella) has advice, and his channel is ad-free. He helped and asked for help from:
Is a daily meditation practice the goal -- to someday be serene and find enlightenment? Then here's the chance of a lifetime at Los Angeles' Dharma Buddhist Meditation group sitting: meetup.com/zen-07.

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