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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

639: Overcome Life Challenges with These 3 Powerful Principles by Mary Jaksch of Good Life Zen

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Mary Jaksch of Good Life Zen shares 3 principles to help you overcome life challenges. Episode 639: Overcome Life Challenges with These 3 Powerful Principles by Mary Jaksch of Good Life Zen (Mindful Living & Simplicity). Mary Jaksch is an authorized Zen master (Diamond Sangha lineage), psychotherapist, and author. She has two nationalities,--English and German--and lives in New Zealand. She's the mother of a grown-up son and lives happily ever after with her partner David. She's been awarded an MA in Religious Studies, holds a 4th Dan Blackbelt in karate, started professional life as a flautist and loves dancing Argentine tango in skimpy dresses. The original post is located here: https://goodlifezen.com/comfort-stretch-and-stress-3-important-principles-of-self-development Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 639.

0:03.2

Overcoming life challenges with these three powerful principles.

0:06.9

By Mary Yacht of GoLifeZan.com, I'm Justin Malik.

0:10.4

Happy Sunday, and welcome back to Optimal Living Daily,

0:13.5

or OLD for short.

0:15.1

A podcast with a vision of bringing hundreds of blogs to audio for free.

0:19.5

Here I currently read from a bunch of different personal development

0:22.3

and minimalism blogs like Thee Minimalist, Zan Habits, Mark and Angel,

0:27.2

and many more including Good Life Zen, which I'm reading today.

0:30.2

So with that, let's hear the post as we optimize your life.

0:34.5

Overcoming life challenges with these three powerful principles.

0:41.2

By Mary Yacht of GoLifeZan.com.

0:45.2

If you want to overcome a life challenge,

0:47.4

the following post will help you follow through.

0:50.1

Whether you want to change how you are, change how you live,

0:53.4

or want to learn new skill,

0:55.1

the process of change is strangely similar.

0:58.2

All self-development, whether it's getting fitter or learning new skills,

1:02.1

follows the same three principles.

1:04.3

Comfort, stretch, and stress.

1:07.5

This theory was developed by two psychologists, Andy Ryan and Donna Markova.

1:12.6

Comfort is the realm of our ingrained habits.

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