I thought of my patience from that day, like…
I thought of my patience from that day, like my infested kitchen. My patient’s brains were also infested by the negative thoughts that were robbing them of their joy and stealing their happiness. The next day, I brought a kind of Ant spray to work as a visual aid and have been working diligently ever cents to help my patients, eradicate their ants ants stand for automatic negative thoughts
— from Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion) · Limitless by Jim Kwik
In the book
Comparison does the same work — measuring your life against someone else's distorts your sense of your own. And the mind generates a steady stream of what one doctor calls ANTs, automatic negative thoughts, that quietly rob people of their joy. Faking the sky. The answer is not to paper over the bad weather. […] Keep your balance by moving. Tend every area of life and take play seriously. Don't fix on the flaw. Refuse the missing-piece habit and the comparison habit; swat the automatic negative thoughts. Invest in people. Relationships are the greatest predictor of a happy life; be a giver, not a taker. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)