One Quick Question To Find Out How Important Something Actually Is

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
short and sweet thing today just a
little tiny kind of litmus test
we often get very attached to our habits
we make assumptions about things that we
think are very productive or we think
are good for us or we think are things
that we need you know we have habits
should we keep those habits is there a
product that we really enjoy that we get
from time to time and and keep getting
because it’s convenient or because it’s
a service that’s easy to find a person
in our lives or relationship maybe
there’s a commitment lots of different
aspects of our lives that we continue to
deal with sometimes because the devil
known is better than the devil unknown
and sometimes because it’s just easier
to go with what you know and you know
there’s there’s one question that I
found that I think is really easy to ask
and forces us to determine whether or
not that thing that we’ve become
comfortable with is actually serving us
and that question is what would my life
actually be like without it so try to
imagine your life without that object
for me for the longest time it was
chocolate I mean I I just thought to
myself you know I’m just gonna figure
out how to work around chocolate cuz
it’s so much a part in my life and at
this point you know other than I think
maybe one or two times that I had
something that had some chocolate added
to it like I had a mocha at one point
but I’m talking about chocolate bars and
and and you know pure chocolate
chocolate is what I was looking at and
when I would imagine my life without it
I would imagine things like a a really
low level of satisfaction or I’d be
missing something or I wouldn’t have the
same energy because chocolate has
caffeine in it
and then that question became a very
different question to ask when
everything popped up about my sugar
level my blood sugar level my a1c and
all that stuff that happened earlier in
the year so what would my life really be
like without chocolate and other things
that had sugar and carbs and and didn’t
serve me in terms of keeping my health
my life would be great and it turns out
that that’s exactly the right answer as
opposed to the oh you know I’ll just
I’ll figure it out so when you’re
sitting there and you’re wondering
yourself is this relationship toxic is
this service that I keep purchasing this
app that I have or this this mailing
list that I’m on or this establishment
that I frequent from time to time this
food that I’m getting you know this
practice that I have is it really
serving me and if I got rid of it what
would my life really be like now my
question to you is and I’d love it if
you leave it in the comments below what
do you have going on in your life where
you thought to yourself you know maybe I
should really think about this
maybe I should really think about
whether or not I should continue with
this and how do you know right so I
wonder if the question what would your
life really be like without whatever
that is makes sense to you let me know
in the comments below I’d love to do
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I was hoping that this is the kind of
experience that I could generate and the
kind of ecology that I could generate
around this so leave a comment below let
me know if there’s something in your
life that you’re thinking hmm I really
should test this and if this test makes
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xvii a thank you so much for watching
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