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PART I
The Discipline of Perception

January
CLARITY

1st January 2026

Learn to differentiate between what's under your control and what's outside it. If you know the difference, you'll stop trying to fight and change what you don't control and save your energy for what you do.

30 December

Keeping a calm mind during the trials of life is the greatest asset we can have, especially for the most difficult trial we all face - death.

29 December

Be grateful, for your health, your friends and family. Gratitude and positivity are contagious.

28 December

Every one of us lasts a day, whether we are remembering others, or others are remembering us after we're gone. We come up in a memory for a day, and then we're gone again like the morning fog.

27 December

Do not give up on life, no matter how tempting it may be. The body may be giving up, but your soul must never.

26 December

Life is long, we just squander so much of it. Next time you think you don't have enough time for family or friends or to learn something new, remember all the wasted time as use your time more wisely from here on out.

25 December

Everything requires rest. The overworked field becomes unfertile. The overworked animal dies. The overworked person also dies, but it's also true of the mind, not just the body. Let the mind rest and it will come back stronger than before.

24 December

Whatever fancy tastes you may have, you are still merely interacting with these things and they will simply go right through you.

23 December

You're afraid of dying, but to protect what exactly? Gossiping? Work you don't like? Is that even living?

22 December

When dealing with a difficult topic, we're inclined to simply quote others who 'know more' about any such topic, but how did they say something but not you? Put your foot down and say something and leave something behind.