{"id":657,"date":"2017-03-22T14:03:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/?p=657"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:03:41","slug":"week-2-24-law-of-least-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/2017\/03\/22\/week-2-24-law-of-least-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2-24 – Law of Least Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Law of Least Effort<\/strong>. Acceptance. Responsibility. Defenselessness.<\/p>\n

Acceptance.<\/strong> I practice acceptance<\/span>. Today I accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I know that this moment is as it should be<\/span>, because the whole universe is as it should be. I do not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are in this moment, not as I wish they were.<\/p>\n

I’ve thought I’m pretty good at this. Every once in a while something will trip me up in the acceptance realm, but, generally speaking, I practice acceptance pretty well.<\/p>\n

Responsibility<\/strong>. Having accepted things as they are, I take responsibility<\/span> of army situation and for all those events I see as problems. I know taking responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for my situation (and this includes myself). I also know that every problem is an opportunity in disguise, and this alertness to opportunities allows me to take this moment and transform it into a greater benefit.<\/p>\n

No, I don’t have to take responsibility for everything, but if I’m going to see something as a problem, I don’t blame someone for it, I take responsibility and take the opportunity to solve the problem. This also means if I’m not willing to take responsibility to rectify a problem, I have no business complaining about it or blaming someone else for it. This is liberating and humbling. I catch myself violating responsibility far too often. I complain about things, but if someone says something to me, my thought is, “I don’t want to pursue this.” That’s a clue that I’m not willing to accept responsibility for something, and I need to shut up about it and focus on things I AM willing to accept responsibility for.<\/p>\n

Defenselessness.<\/strong> Today my awareness remains established in Defenselessness<\/span>. I relinquish the need to defend my point of view. I feel no need to convince or persuade others to accept my point of view and am not rigidly attached to any one of them.<\/p>\n

If I ever find myself getting upset about something, when I examine the situation, I realize I’ve forgotten to practice defenselessness.<\/p>\n

Applying the Law of Least Effort<\/strong> means living each day with Acceptance, Responsibility, and Defenselessness.<\/p>\n

When I do this, I’m in the flow. Things are effortless. I’m not fighting and feeling much more positive. I’m working on things I can affect. I’m not frustrated by things I have no control over. This is an important piece of the MKE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Law of Least Effort. Acceptance. Responsibility. Defenselessness. Acceptance. I practice acceptance. Today I accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I do not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. … Continue reading “Week 2-24 – Law of Least Effort”<\/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":[105],"tags":[115,126,68,125],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-mkmma","tag-acceptance","tag-defenselessness","tag-law-of-least-effort","tag-responsibility"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6MHaR-aB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}