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The solution to the inscrutable question of “why am I not fulfilling my life potential” may be something as simple and common as salt. Or tennis shoes.

None of us like everything we do in the course of our work – even those of us who love our jobs. But you can motivate yourself in the job you’ve got – even if it’s just long enough to successfully transition yourself to the one you’d love – with a change in perspective.

Sudden inexplicable tension has only a 50::50 chance of being about the situation taking place. Chances are great that the person escalating the situation is upset about something else.

The condition of life is one of sometime discomfort, and that the thing we need to do is learn to experience the discomfort, instead of trying to mask it or reject it. If we just let ourselves feel the discomfort and accept it for what it is, we don’t feel compelled to layer on more failures by doing artificial things to mask the discomfort. That way, we learn what needs to be learned from the situation without making additional mistakes. That, by the way, is the original purpose of meditation. If we learn to simply empty our minds of all the “content,” we can learn to be present in the given moment.