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Yourself and your limits
Saying no, asking for something, and holding a line are skills, not personality. So is speaking to yourself the way you would speak to someone you love.
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4 practicesHow long you have · A minute
When · Any ordinary day
Ask what this moment actually needs, not what your habit wants. Match the response to the situation.
Health is flexibility: sometimes speak up, sometimes let go, chosen to fit, not fixed by habit.
Two opposite things can both be true: I did my best, and I can do better. Hold both.
You do not have to choose one side of yourself. Wisdom often lives in holding both at once.
You were shaped with care. On a day you feel worthless, that is a feeling, not a fact.
Feeling worthless is weather, not the ground. The ground is that you were made well.
Stop measuring your inside against other people's outside. Run your own race.
Comparison is a game rigged to make you lose. Turn your eyes back to your own path.