Stop focusing on today’s weather #Habits

12 Nov 2020 · 1 min

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Short advice clip by TJ Walker arguing that people over-focus on daily weather, which unnecessarily affects mood and wastes time. He suggests limiting attention to daily weather (unless professionally relevant, e.g., farming) and instead spending that time on productive pursuits (learning skills) and practicing gratitude to choose happiness.

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It's raining today. Guess what? Nobody cares. The problem that a lot of people have, myself included, is we spend too much time thinking about the weather, figuring out what the weather is, and allowing the weather to decide our mood. That's a horrible practice. Now we can't change the weather. I think it's great to think about long term climate change issues, but today's weather? Unless you're a farmer, it typically doesn't matter. The amount of time people spend going to weather.com in a year and checking the weather is time they could spend becoming an internationally renowned expert on writing novels or search engine optimization or something else more useful. So really challenge yourself to spend less time thinking about the weather. Monitoring the weather. Unless you are a farmer and don't let the weather decide your mood, you can decide to be happy by focusing on what you're grateful for.