Daily Inspiration
what you link pain to and what you link pleasure to shape your destiny. Each of us has learned and adopted a unique pattern of behaviors to get ourselves out of pain and into pleasure. Some people do this by drinking, smoking, overeating or verbally abusing others. Others do it by exercising, conversing, learning, helping others, or making a difference in some way.
What are some of your pain-avoiding and pleasure inducing patterns? How have they shaped your life up until now? Make a list of these strategies. When you want to feel better, do you watch TV? Light a cigarette? Go to sleep? What are some of the more positive ways in which you could move away from pain and toward pleasure?
Forget the past and concentrate on now and the future. What you have done in the past is merely experience. Don’t beat yourself up if you have formed bad habits to make you feel good or to avoid pain. There is nothing you can do about the past as you can never change it. However you can forge a new future and create a better present for yourself each and every day. So think about how you can create the present and future YOU want for YOU.