While you’re exercising your physical muscles, don’t forget your restraint muscle. It can use a workout too. Discipline needn’t be a chore. Consider the paradox that restraint can be freeing. Embracing this, or at least not totally discounting it, should come more easily these days, but with the ease of point and click (the main means of scratching our buying itch), caution can take flight.
To put some starch in your resolve, consider these ancient and modern thoughts-
“Nothing is enough for the man for whom enough is too little.” Epicurus, 4th Century BC Greek Philosopher
“They might be fair trade, organic leg warmers, but if your legs aren’t cold, it’s still a frivolous purchase.” Sarah Lazarovic, 21 Century AD author of “A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy
Singing the praises of discipline in the Age of Corona.