“If you don’t have ten minutes for yourself,” he has said, “you don’t have a life.” He’s right. If I am truly owning my day, owning my life, it doesn’t matter what is happening externally. To wait for the external world to change before you alleviate your stress is a fool’s errand. You know what is beyond that mountain? More fucking mountains. If you’re going to climb, then you better adapt. Chronic stress is less about the environment, and more about your response to it. So own it. Put yourself intentionally into the occasional fire, and take yourself intentionally out of the chronic stress
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