{"id":612,"date":"2016-12-09T11:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/?p=612"},"modified":"2016-12-09T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:58:49","slug":"week-2-11-forget-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/2016\/12\/09\/week-2-11-forget-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2-11 &#8211; Forget It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M. R. Kopmeyer is solidly the second member of my Council. <em>Thoughts to Build On<\/em> is such a valuable supplement to this course. Each chapter is short and pertinent to everything we&#8217;re studying. The terminology is even consistent. One of my readings this week was titled, &#8220;<strong>Forget It<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lesson? When something annoys you, don&#8217;t dwell on it. Forget it right away. The theory behind this is, you&#8217;re going to forget it eventually, why not do it now? Don&#8217;t spend even a moment of your precious time dwelling on something that needs to be forgotten and let go.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard the tagline for the disaster clean up people, right? &#8220;Like it Never Even Happened.&#8221; That&#8217;s why we need to make annoyances that we&#8217;re going to eventually forget about anyway disappear (even if you think you won&#8217;t, you will, so Do. It. Now.). The sooner the better.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t escalate the irritation. Don&#8217;t dwell on it. Ignore it and forget it immediately. Don&#8217;t even acknowledge it. Think about something else (where have we heard that before?).<\/p>\n<p>I confess, this still takes practice for me, but we&#8217;ve already been practicing with our Mental Diet. Keep that diet going.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note: Kopmeyer&#8217;s <em>Thoughts to Build On<\/em> is out of print. A search revealed you can get an electronic copy in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ThoughtsToBuildOn\" target=\"_blank\">several formats on the Internet Archives Site<\/a> (consider donating to help keep their site freely accessible, whether you agree with their politics or not). Numerous notable online used bookstores also seem to have copies. Prices vary widely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M. R. Kopmeyer is solidly the second member of my Council. Thoughts to Build On is such a valuable supplement to this course. Each chapter is short and pertinent to everything we&#8217;re studying. The terminology is even consistent. One of my readings this week was titled, &#8220;Forget It.&#8221; The lesson? When something annoys you, don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/2016\/12\/09\/week-2-11-forget-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 2-11 &#8211; Forget It!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,105],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mkmma","category-year-two-mkmma","tag-forget-it"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6MHaR-9S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}