60. Paint your masterpiece today

Think of your day as a blank artist’s canvas. If you go through your day passively accepting whatever other people and circumstances splatter on your canvas, you will more than likely see a mess where art could be. If the mess troubles your sleep, your next new day will begin in a state of fatigue and mild confusion. From such a state, your canvas will be splattered all the more with shapes you don’t like and colors you never chose.

Thinking of your day as a painter’s canvas will allow you to be more conscious of what is happening to you when you flood your mind with nothing but Internet gossip, commercials on the radio, the latest murder trial, your spouse’s criticisms, office politics, and pessimistic musical ...

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