{"id":34708,"date":"2019-11-26T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=34708"},"modified":"2019-11-06T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:00:49","slug":"bookfreak28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/bookfreak28\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Freak #28: A Guide to Personal Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Freak<\/a> is a weekly newsletter with cognitive tools you can use to improve the quality of your life.<\/p>\n

Surgeon Don Miguel Ruiz had a near-death experience that caused him to rethink the way he had been living. He developed a set of four agreements with himself to help him life a more fulfilling life:<\/div>\n
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  1. Be impeccable with your word.<\/li>\n
  2. Don\u2019t take anything personally.<\/li>\n
  3. Don\u2019t make assumptions.<\/li>\n
  4. Always do your best.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Here\u2019s advice from his book,\u00a0The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom<\/a>.<\/div>\n

    Use your words to create the life you want to live<\/strong>
    \n\u201cThe first agreement is to be impeccable with your word. It sounds very simple, but it is very, very powerful. Why your word? Your word is the power that you have to create.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Don’t swallow poison<\/strong>
    \n\u201cTaking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one little opinion and feed you whatever poison they want, and because you take it personally, you eat it up. You eat all their emotional garbage, and now it becomes your garbage. But if you do not take it personally, you are immune in the middle of hell. Immunity to poison in the middle of hell is the gift of this agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Ask questions instead of making assumptions<\/strong>
    \n\u201cIf others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don\u2019t tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear something and we don\u2019t understand we make assumptions about what it means and then believe the assumptions. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don\u2019t have the courage to ask questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Avoid self criticism by always doing your best<\/strong>
    \n\u201cJust do your best \u2014 in any circumstance in your life. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are sick or tired, if you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself. And if you don\u2019t judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame, and self-punishment. By always doing your best, you will break a big spell that you have been under.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Book Freak<\/a> is one of four newsletters from Cool Tools Lab (our other three are the Cool Tools Newsletter<\/a>, Recomendo<\/a>, and What’s in my bag?<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

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    A Guide to Personal Freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34711,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34708\/revisions\/34711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}