I think that it wasn't worth it for me to go to your blog to find a quotation that could have easily been posted here and linked to there. I also think that there were no thoughts on the similarity between what Millman said to what Pavlina said. Heck I don't remember the entry that clearly except for the main points and I dunno what you're talking about, woulda liked a refresher. So, overall, seemed a little like link advertising. I had to go through three links to find anything useful (which was the interview with Millman).
On the other hand, that quotation is very interesting, because it does show the error of thinking too much. As someone posted recently, my body can easily handle running for twenty minutes, but its my mind that resists like hell. I realized this recently, too, when I was washing dishes and thought I might pop open the cabinet and look at the broken pipe under there to potentially replace it, but then I told myself I was too lazy to do that. IE, I wanted to do it, and then i told myself not to do it. Weird how insanely the mind works.
This is what Millman said:
To progress toward your goals, please choose one of the following methods:
(1) You can find a way to quiet your mind, create empowering beliefs and positive self-talk, find your focus and affirm your power to free your emotions and visualize positive outcomes so that you can develop the confidence to generate the courage to find the determination to make the commitment to feel sufficiently motivated to do whatever it is you need to do.
(2) Or you can just do it.
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