ELEVATE LIFE #7

elevate (44) in knowledge • 7 years ago (edited)

PAIN OR PLEASURE: Short term or long term...

Stoicism can be defined as inviting short term pain in return for long term pleasure. But how do you find the motivation to move through the pain.

Most people use the future reward of pleasure to create inspiration. This can be very effective if practiced over a period of time. For example, how do some people go to the gym at 5:00 am? They have linked their brain with the pleasure of endorphins after pumping iron. I believe if you want more permanent change in the brain, look at the long term pain of not taking care of your body 1, 3, 5 years down the road. (Substitute relationships, finance, spirituality, etc.)

What is the price you're paying by not getting uncomfortable in your life, relationships, career, health, finances... Think about what your future self would say to you and decide what's the most important thing to you right now.

Pick one thing you have been avoiding, and journal what your future self would say to you. Then decide to act. One small step at a time we get ahead.

Yours in Transformation,

Mike Freeman

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7 years ago by elevate (44)

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krguidedog (64) · 7 years ago

Woff, woff!

Hello @elevate, Nice to meet you!

I'm a guide dog living in KR community. I can see that you want to contribute to KR community and communicate with other Korean Steemians. I really appreciate it and I'd be more than happy to help.

KR tag is used mainly by Koreans, but we give warm welcome to anyone who wish to use it. I'm here to give you some advice so that your post can be viewed by many more Koreans. I'm a guide dog after all and that's what I do!

Tips:

If you're not comfortable to write in Korean, I highly recommend you write your post in English rather than using Google Translate.
Unfortunately, Google Translate is terrible at translating English into Korean. You may think you wrote in perfect Korean, but what KR Steemians read is gibberish. Sorry, even Koreans can't understand your post written in Google-Translated Korean.
So, here's what might happen afterward. Your Google-Translated post might be mistaken as a spam so that whales could downvote your post. Yikes! I hope that wouldn't happen to you.
If your post is not relevant to Korea, not even vaguely, but you still use KR tag, Whales could think it as a spam and downvote your post. Double yikes!
If your post is somebody else's work(that is, plagiarism), then you'll definitely get downvotes.
If you keep abusing tags, you may be considered as a spammer. It may result to put you into the blacklist. Oops!

I sincerely hope that you enjoy Steemit without getting downvotes. Because Steemit is a wonderful place. See? Korean Steemians are kind enough to raise a guide dog(that's me) to help you!

Woff, woff! 🐶

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elevate (44) · 7 years ago

Thank you for your support! I made a mistake on the tag, I'll edit that right now.

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jordbruk (25) · 7 years ago

kr-guide!

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