How to live
1 Day At A Time
How to make life easier by living one day at a time
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what is the most powerful thing you can
do to change your life for me I've found
its living one day at a time looking at
life more like Groundhog Day then this
long drawn-out process with all these
years grades things to do Cass milestone
and ultimately caskets the easiest way
to live life is just one day at a time
and to look at it you don't have this
whole long life
filled with all these things you have to
do all you have to do is just live this
one day over and over and over again
just like Groundhog Day if you've seen
it or the recent Tom Cruise movie I
really like to did a good job with that
too one day at a time means you focus on
the similarities between all of your
days you acknowledge that life is lived
only today that life in yesterday and
tomorrow are imaginary
you've never lived a day in your life
that hasn't been anything besides today
and even if you're up past midnight and
the clock changes you'll find yourself
asking what day is it now your today has
changed and that's really helpful for
life because mostly I feel like we focus
on differences all the time what's
unique about today and the thing is that
makes life hard to live because there's
unique things about every day and if you
try and look at all the unique things
about all the days in your life it gets
overwhelming your mind and my mind is
programmed to do one day at a time
that's what it can handle it can't
handle trying to successfully give a
talk next week or trying to do something
big like have a kid in a few months like
I'm going to do or try and set up a
business over the course of several
years the mind does not have the
capacity to do a good job at these tasks
because it cannot process all of the
data there is an ax men
amount of data there's a mint amount of
sensory impressions immense amount of
knowledge that is part of every single
day and so when you're thinking ahead to
things or you're trying to remember
things you're using a small fraction of
the data and it's amazing now I listen
to people trying to explain these things
in the past you are trying to explain
something in the past through one
percent or less of the data usually when
I try and do that in my life it doesn't
work out very well in fact even trying
to explain today is challenging the easy
thing to do is give up explaining what
happened before give up predicting
what's going to happen in the future and
focus on finding the similarities you
have between every day because once you
know the similarities of every day then
you have power to change you have power
to really set your life up in a way that
works and that's what I'm doing
I've realized all I need to really
figure out is how to live today and I
really only have to figure out that one
day that's all I have to do now each day
the form of that will change a little
bit but here's the thing if I know
what's likely to happen today I also
know what's likely to happen tomorrow
and what happened yesterday so what do I
mean by that I mean things like this the
day's going to start with me waking up
every day will start like that I will
wake up that's how it will begin now
sure something could happen in proximity
to me waking up like an alarm or a
doorbell ringing but that doesn't matter
the main thing is I wake up that's how
every day begins and I'll have every day
conditioned with some pre-made mood from
dreams or from a small thing going on so
I know my mood will likely be kind of
the roll of the dice every morning so
that means I don't have to take it too
seriously I kind of get stuck with a
random
first thing in the morning so then I
know what I need to do is try and do
something every day all right after I've
got up to set my mood to reset my mood
to get myself in the right frame of mind
for the day so that doesn't matter where
I'm at what I'm doing exactly how I woke
up what time it is you can see that then
accounts for every little thing that
could happen in life I know once I get
up I need to intentionally do something
to get my mood in the right place so
that's what I do I eat because my body
often will get in a bad mood if I don't
treat it right treating it right
includes eating in the morning so I get
up and I eat something and then the next
thing I do is take care of my mind my
spirit I pray I ask to be of service of
use in the universe and I remember to be
grateful that I'm here today and to be
think about my health think about how
I'm feeling because when I'm sick I sure
think about how I'm feeling so when I'm
feeling good I should sure think about
how I'm feeling also so I every day I
get up and I do these same things every
day and that way since I know I kind of
get a random mood first thing in the
morning every day I do something to set
my mood for the day and then after that
I have some things to do I try and do
something useful
I think these videos or podcast episodes
are useful based on what you've told me
so I try and do one of these every
morning or I try and do something else
useful if I'm traveling I will do
something else useful and maybe it's not
make a video but I try and next do
something useful because that's very
important after I've set my mind right
is to follow through with action do
something useful and then I continue to
try and do that until it's either time
for exercise or lunch and then whenever
those are done then I have the opposite
so if I exercise first and I'll eat if I
eat first then I'll try and exercise
later be
active and then at some point I call and
talked to the same few people every day
and then call and talk to some of the
people I talk to each week send text
messages stay in touch with people and
then I have a support group meeting or
if I don't have a support group meaning
at that time of day then I put more time
and energy and talking to the people
around me and then I make time for
additional eating and some fun something
that's relaxing or something that is no
pressure no strings attached it's not
for work and that could be watching a
show with my wife it could be playing
some video games
it could be just doing something with
the dogs and then it's time to go to bed
and then I wind down to go to bed I try
not get all hyped up when I'm in bed so
I try and do things like brush my teeth
and I have some routines that I'm
cleaning up ceremoniously going to bed
and then I try and be grateful for that
day so you can see the main thing to
figure out is how to live that one day
because that one day just shared with
you is every day and I have immense
opportunity influence my life if I can
slightly modify how I go about every day
the system I used to live every single
day I have immense power to change my
life things like losing weight all I
have to do is make slight adjustments to
my daily eating system and I could have
immense influence over my weight the my
physical appearance if I want to have
more energy all I have to do is make
slight adjustments every day to my
exercise system and look at it like a
program all I need to do really is write
a program for one day that's all I
really need to do with my life is write
a program for one day it will handle any
where I'm at anything I have to do and
then I'm not likely to get too far out
of line for example I know no matter
what's going on I must stop and pray in
the morning and be grateful and have
something to eat I don't care what else
is going on I must do that or I will
suffer
and that's how powerful living one day
at a time is there aren't all these
exceptions all the time I take care of
myself and then I can be of service to
the people around me how many people
have you seen in life rushing around not
taking care of themselves thinking
they're being useful and really they're
being a pain to everyone else people
running in to work in a hurry that
haven't eaten that had certainly haven't
prayed and that aren't grateful for
their life they're rushing around
they're causing traffic accidents
they're coming into work they're making
everyone else irritable they're waiting
hours to then try and eat lunch it
doesn't take very many people living
life like that to make all of the rest
of us have to deal with it so my thing
is if I can take care of myself each day
then I can also accept when other people
aren't taking care of themselves that
the best I can do for people who aren't
taking care of themselves is to be a
role model look I'm taking care of
myself this is what works for me most of
my life I was that person running around
not taking care of themselves when I was
a police officer I'd come straight in
lots of times not have had anything to
eat be really hungry really irritable
and then I'd have to go immediately as
soon as we're on a roll call as soon as
I could to go get something to eat and
Here I am carrying a gun around wearing
a bulletproof vest with the power to
arrest people and I'm not even taking
care of myself
so that's how I used to be so that's why
I'm sharing this now is because there's
lots of people that are still living
like that and you have the opportunity
to not live like that all you have to do
is program a formula a system to live
one day buy and run that system every
single day it'll handle good and bad
feelings it'll handle bad and good
things happening in life it'll handle
everything and the coping is a more
refined you make the system it's more
tolerant of deviance in the individual
day so something really bad happens if I
have a good system for living each day
then my system handles at I don't get
way out of sorts at the same time if I
don't have a good system something far
out that happens will encourage me to
look at it and find opportunities to
make it better so that to me is a
miracle you don't have to figure out all
these things in life you don't have to
understand all these things in life you
don't have to understand your past and
why it impacted how you are now you
don't have to predict the future and
know everything you're going to do all
you have to do to have a great life is
program a formula to live one day and
then run that everyday when you get up
you run your day formula when you go to
bed you turn off when you wake up you
run you're live this day formula and
that's all you have to do and it's a
beautiful thing
so I prayed before this to be of service
and I've used to the universe and so
this is what has came out of it I hope
it is useful I pray today that I will
always take time especially now to look
at my one day at a time formula and to
make the best formula I can and to stick
by that as close as I can each day I
pray that I will be of more service to
others that I will love more of others
then that I need service and then I need
love because I've certainly needed a lot
of love and surface in my life already
so I hope to be part of the good part of
the tolerance part of the help that's
out there so I pray that sharing this
with you is useful for you in making a
formula for you to live every day of
your life one day at a time thank you
for sharing this with me and I love to
know what you think have a great day
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