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August 13th

TAKE CHARGE AND END YOUR TROUBLES

“You’ve endured countless troubles—all from not letting your

ruling reason do the work it was made for—enough already!”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.26

ow many things you fear have actually come to pass? How many
times has anxiety driven you to behave in a way you later regret? How
many times have you let jealousy or frustration or greed lead you down a
bad road?
Letting our reason rule the day might seem like more work, but it saves
us quite a bit of trouble. As Ben Franklin’s proverb put it: “An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Your brain was designed to do this work. It was meant to separate what
is important from what is senseless, to keep things in perspective, to only
become troubled by that which is worth becoming troubled about. You only
need to put it to use.