Practice
5 Days — Facing Failure
When something you cared about didn't work.
Day 1 — Gain and loss, level
Weigh gain and loss the same.
BG 2.38 — Taking as equal pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, gird thee for the battle; thus thou shalt not incur sin. read →
Practice
Make one decision today without first tallying what it wins or costs you.
Day 2 — Your own work
Your own flawed work beats a borrowed one.
BG 18.48 — Congenital duty, O son of Kunti, though defective, ought not to be abandoned. All undertakings indeed are clouded by defects as fire by smoke. read →
Practice
Do the task that's actually yours today, imperfectly, rather than the one that looks better.
Day 3 — It passes
Sensations pass; sit through one.
BG 2.14 — The contacts of matter, O son of Kuntî, giving cold and heat, pleasure and pain, they come and go, impermanent; endure them bravely, O Bhârata. read →
Practice
The next time discomfort rises today, wait 60 seconds before fixing it.
Day 4 — Ally, not judge
You are your own lift or weight.
BG 6.5 — Let him raise the self by the Self and not let the self become depressed; for verily is the Self the friend of the self, and also the Self the self's enemy; read →
Practice
Catch one harsh thing you say about yourself today and drop it.
Day 5 — Drop the commentary
Stance weighs as much as act.
BG 4.18 — He who seeth inaction in action, and action in inaction, he is wise among men, he is harmonious, even while performing all action. read →
Practice
Do one demanding task today without the running commentary about how hard it is.