Speaking to myself in the second person. Because that is necessary. First person doesn’t work. I won’t listen, it is a thing. I don’t even know how to categorize this one. It is my brain talking to me- or how I wish it would talk to me, and how I wish I would act upon such. It’ll count for an “ongoing OCD episode.”
To do!
• Stop people from walking all over you.
• Have a “Fuck It” attitude when necessary.1
• And know it is necessary more often than you think
• Keep doing good.
• Do that better.
• Quit believing in signs.
• Believe in signs.
• Fucking listen, even if just for the sake of it.
• Stop projecting the past on the present.
• Learn to say “no.”2
• You complain about the same fucking things. Do something—about them?
• Stop with the fucking money bullshit.
• You have enough, you don’t have enough, you don’t know.
• Fucking go enjoy something.
• Read your notes.
• Do what your notes tell you to do.
• Quit trying so hard.
• No, seriously don’t skip that one—quit trying so hard.
• Don’t run this article through a grammar checker. You can start there.
• Quit sleeping when you’re anxious, you tried quite a few times, the world didn’t go away.
• Don’t stop obsessing, you got that to work.
• Remember that happy feeling? No, you don’t because you don’t classify stuff as “happy.”
• Stop taking control… all the time.
• The research you’ve done on happiness—go with some of that.
• Don’t stop ignoring self-help bullshit.
• Do even more good.3
• Keep thinking the way you think—it works.
• You want to keep your insane schedule? Have a color for “unrealistic.”
• Quit being afraid of people you do not need to be afraid of. What is the worst they can do?
• Don’t answer that last question. Do the first part.
• Quit trying so hard.
• Quit trying so hard.
• Quit trying so hard.
• Quit trying so hard.
• Note the impossibility of this list. Note how you’ve tackled worse.