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#301
Bassiclees said:
Despite the title, I cannot strongly enough recommend this book for anyone on this thread. Since the first time I read it, it has shaped the ‘Lego pieces’ of my mind and become a formative element in my consciousness. The tl;dr is the book serves as a manual for living with gratitude as a catalyst for joy, even under the most unimaginably horrific circumstances.
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From the site:

"She offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy."

Good enough for me, man. She's spot on by the blurb. I'm looking at the buy button right now. To some degree, I'm already onto a lot of these mindsets and I'd like to explore them from a different side. Thanks for sharing!
 
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#302
Bassiclees said:
Despite the title, I cannot strongly enough recommend this book for anyone on this thread. Since the first time I read it, it has shaped the ‘Lego pieces’ of my mind and become a formative element in my consciousness. The tl;dr is the book serves as a manual for living with gratitude as a catalyst for joy, even under the most unimaginably horrific circumstances.
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Pema Chodron is great.
 
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#307
James Collins said:
I agree with the sentiment of this thread. I turned off pretty much all notifications because it was getting to be too much toxicity.
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I don't use notifications, except for private messages. And I don't get those via email anymore, though I used to at one point.

If a thread or a poster is getting toxic or unreasonably ugly with me, I may do two things. First, I wish that poster a nice day and put them on ignore. If the thread continues to be toxic or I find myself tempted to continue to respond in an unhealthy way, I put the thread's OP on ignore as well, which keeps the thread from coming up in my "new posts" searches. After a short while I'm no longer tempted to engage and then I can unignore the OP.

Every now and then I go to my ignore list and unignore just about everyone. I don't hold grudges. I don't usually even remember why I put them on there in the first place. There are one or two repeat offenders who stay, and a few people who have been habitual annoyances in other ways. Other than those folks, everyone else gets out of jail and we start over.
 
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I have learned not to react immediately to things, to get past that initial anger spike and give things time just to blow on by. If I do this, then the anger is ultimately revealed to be just an over-reaction.

Since some of the catalysts, like t-shirts, are worn by folks whom otherwise I would consider good people, patience can be a virtue.
 
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#310
GretschWretch said:
I initially misread "goal" as "goat."
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#312
Pilgrim said:
I had french toast , bacon and good coffee for breakfast while watching CBS Sunday Morning. The world is a fine and sunny place!

To prepare the french toast, I used the 1950's "mid century modern" GE griddle I inherited from my mom. I did a lot of scrubbing to get the griddle surface so clean, but it works fantastic!

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The breakfast sounds good but let's take a moment to appreciate that sweet countertop. AAAAA grade granite?
 
#313
perfektspace6 said:
The breakfast sounds good but let's take a moment to appreciate that sweet countertop. AAAAA grade granite?
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Actually, that was a grade 4, not one of the grades above that. I don't know why it was categorized that low, but we took advantage and used a lot of it.

Here's a better photo of that end of the kitchen. My wife insisted on the granite slab on the wall behind the range. I think it looks great! Our breakfast area has the same granite top.

And this was a retirement upgrade to the house. I'm old enough to have some bothersome issues, but none that keep me from getting out to do things that matter to me.

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Using zero Meta products- FB, IG, Messenger and Oculus is very important for mental health as they operate with effectively zero data ethics and as their services are free, you are the product. And zero means zero- not just not having the apps but no accounts, not using it just for work or communication, nada, zero, zilch. Do not touch any of their tools as they are inherently toxic. It was hard to extract myself from their sticky clutches but once done was one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself.
 
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Bassiclees said:
26345554[/URL], member: 374122"]Using zero Meta products- FB, IG, Messenger and Oculus is very important for mental health as they operate with effectively zero data ethics and as their services are free, you are the product. And zero means zero- not just not having the apps but no accounts, not using it just for work or communication, nada, zero, zilch. Do not touch any of their tools as they are inherently toxic. It was hard to extract myself from their sticky clutches but once done was one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself.
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WhatsApp, too. Also trying to wean myself off Google products. IMO, they’re just as toxic.
 
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