ZERO TOLERANCE!
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Ah! Tolerances…small or big…they are there, toying with us every single day. Some tolerances have been with us for years…some have moved in recently. I have always had a fairly low tolerance level, but in the last few years, I have sharpened my ZERO Tolerance skill and made it my priority to uncover, assess and fire my tolerances. After all, we only have one life to live and this is a simple way to smooth the ride.
What are tolerances?
All the things that just drive you nuts or dims your bulb! Dirty car, crowded closets, messy desk, negative friends, unfinished renos, unsharpened knives, problematic computer…I could go on and on with this list. The point is: Don’t ignore all those little annoyances. Ignoring them only gives them more power over us and little by little, we get more and more aggravated and the costs of that can be high.
3 easy steps to a Tolerance Free life!
1. Make a list: of all your existing tolerances, big or small. If it bugs you for any reason, list it. Write down the tolerances along with what needs to be done to get rid of them. Some are simpler to bust than others, but ALL can be busted.
2. Bust 1 every day: and gain a tremendous amount of satisfaction and momentum. You will feel a lot lighter and more free every day.
3. Increase your awareness: to be able to easily recognize the new tolerances that want to settle in or the old ones that are trying to creep back in. Zero Tolerance is the name of this game.
Have fun freeing up your life and feeling all the benefits of ZERO Tolerance! And remember, it’s easier to do it than to dwell on it!
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Now why didn’t I think of that. It makes total sense. Of course it’s probably worth mentioning that we should focus on the habits that we can change. For example, I’m not a big fan of this new underwear display with crotch hanging at knee level that kids are wearing these days. Sometimes I wish I had a stack of belts that I could hand out and pull up those trousers.
But I bet you that if I removed the habits that I’ve created that stress me out, like my cluttered desk, I probably won’t notice the underwear display and will feel much more at ease.
Tolerance is a habit, for sure.
If you allow it to be more than zero then it will expand along the lines of the old maxim “if you give an inch they will take a mile”.
If the limit to tolerance is zero, then that will always be the expectation, which results in good habits.
If the limit to tolerance is greater than zero, then the habits will grow to the limit, potentially resulting in bad habits.
Thank you Isabelle for the reminder.