Workbook
You Do Not Have to Suffer Through This
The Quality of Life Workbook for People Who Have Accepted Discomfort as a Condition of Their Life
This workbook builds the upgrade plan that solves every discomfort you accepted as a permanent condition.
For the person who has returned to a developing country and accepted the system limitations as personal limitations. For the person who has access to global commerce, international shipping, and the internet — and is still living as though those tools do not exist. For the person who needs to be told: the technology exists to solve this. You have access to it. The only missing step is you making the list.
The Name It First Experience
The discomfort you have been living with is not a condition of your life — it is a list of problems that have solutions you have not looked up yet. You Do Not Have to Suffer Through This walks you through the specific audit: what are you accepting as unchangeable that global commerce, international shipping, and the internet could solve in a weekend — and builds the documented upgrade plan that closes every item on the list in the next 30 days. This workbook is for the person who has returned to a developing country and quietly accepted the system limitations as personal limitations, and for anyone who has access to the tools that solve the problem and has not used them. The Quality of Life Workbook for People Who Have Accepted Discomfort as a Condition of Their Life starts with the list — and ends with it closed.
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Sample questions
- What are you suffering through right now that has a solution you have not pursued?
- What have you accepted as just how things are that is actually solvable with the tools you already have?
- What would your daily life feel like if you eliminated three sources of unnecessary friction in the next 30 days?
Research basis
Grounded in chronic stress and suffering research / brief intervention literature (Miller and Rollnick, 2013) on the role of explicit permission-giving in reducing avoidance of available relief / Neff (2011) self-compassion research on the barriers individuals face in treating their own suffering as a legitimate target for action.
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