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Self-Control & letting go

Below are the best resources we could find on Self-Control and letting go.

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If You Want to Achieve Your Goals, Don’t Focus on Them—Reggie Rivers at TEDxCrestmoorParkED

Former Denver Broncos running back Reggie Rivers discusses how focusing on your goals is the one sure way NOT to achieve them. With humor and insight he goes on to explain how focusing on your behaviors is how you achieve goals.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Stoicism: Tools for Emotional Resilience and Positivity

Being a stoic means embracing positivity and self-control through the ability to accept the uncertainty of outcomes. With this stoicism guide, the beginner stoic will learn how to take charge of their emotions on the path to sustained happiness and satisfaction.

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How to Be a Stoic

The first line of Epictetus’ manual of ethical advice, the Enchiridion—“Some things are in our control and others not”—made me feel that a weight was being lifted off my chest.

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FindCenterYou cannot trade the courage needed to live every moment for immunity from life’s sorrows. Many things are clearly up to us. And many others are not. I can see no evidence that the universe works on a simple meritocratic system of cause and effect. Bad things happen to good people—all the time.

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Controlling Your Reactivity | Q&A Eckhart Tolle

"Can you speak about reactivity?" In this video, Eckhart gives counsel in making the choice to react or allow.

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Female Mountain Bikers Explore the Romance of the Crash in “On Falling”

"I wanted to explore the uneasy elements of risk and injury, and try to wrap my head around the inner experience and thinking of people who are willing to consistently make themselves vulnerable to risk.”

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Resistance to Letting Go of Control - Jessica Dibb and Russ Hudson

Jessica Dibb and Russ Hudson present during the June 2011 Accessing and Integrating Essence workshop at Inspiration Consciousness School.

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FindCenterAll of us need to leave things behind in order to follow God. For some of us, it is addictive patterns of behavior, for others an overweening emphasis on our own success, for others the adulation of the crowd.

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Zen Principles Phil Jackson Used to Coach Dennis Rodman | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

Legendary NBA coach Phil Jackson says he’s long sought spiritual practices to help quiet his restless mind. In his new book, Eleven Rings, Phil says three Zen principles have been critical to him as a leader.

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How to Live a Good Life | Epictetus and Stoicism

In this video, I talk about Stoicism, Epictetus and his ideas on living the good life.

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