Have you tried a different Conditioner?

​Day 419 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

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A DIFFERENT CONDITIONER 
 
The phone pings
and I don’t lift it up,
or even look at it.
 
The phone pings again
and I consciously ignore it.
I am somewhere else.
 
The bell rings
and Pavlov’s dog salivates.
In the hope that food is coming.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE?
1.  What is managing how you respond - phone, habits, others?  
2. How much of your life is in reactive mode (conditioned responses)  and how much is in proactive (inner) mode? ​

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