1. Do Hard Things On Purpose Choosing challenge strengthens your prefrontal cortex and builds long-term mental resilience. 2. Hurt Better: Pain isn’t optional—but your brain’s interpretation of it is. Meaning transforms suffering into growth. 3. Want Less: You’re not addicted to dopamine—you’re clinging to outdated thoughts. Reframe false needs. 4. Let Routines Rule: Structure frees up cognitive energy and anchors the mind in predictability and control. 5. Reject the Lie That You Have It Figured Out: Overcertainty kills curiosity—and curiosity is a cognitive antidote to despair. 6. Embrace Limits (Use Strategic, Healthy “No’s”): Boundaries protect cognitive bandwidth and prevent mental burnout. 7. View People as Wells, Not Pits: Others aren’t drains—they’re potential sources of feedback and strength if approached with open cognition. 8. Sleep Like Your Sanity Depends On It (It Does): Sleep isn’t passive—it’s prefrontal maintenance that stabilizes thought and mood. 9. Reframe the Meaning of Struggle: Struggle becomes suffering when left unexplored. Reframing creates containers for pain. 10. Don’t Feel Your Way Forward—Think Your Way Through: Feelings are outputs. Clear thinking rewires your emotional landscape. 🎧Catch the audio discussion here: https://x.com/therapy_bites/status/1925598179342290985?s=46

Be careful wasting focus on your Circle of Concern. Keeping mindful of your Circle of Control (your own thoughts) will best address those issues in your Circles of Influence AND Concern.