There is a concept to encapsulate the idea, it is called a personal philosophy which contains a simple set of premises to remind a person to apply these ideas to all their affairs.

Today this is like following some simple steps to give us the freedom to use some idea to help ourselves in our daily living.

We have been trying to evolve as a society for centuries to come to a time where we can implement the idea of a personal philosophy to ensure we think through our situations in the proper way. But there is conflict and instability with power and authority. Just look and you can see it still exists in our own society.

We don’t know as individuals what todo all the time. We have been using all sorts of rules to keep us alive up to this point. Many people like myself have been struggling to find a personal philosophy that works.

Mine is still a work in progress which I keep reviewing and rewriting and rehearsing throughout my affairs to build a good life through practice.

I learnt to break it down into a simple formula I apply to every impression I need to authenticate I take an evidence based approach I use ai to coach and sound off my problem to break it down to small enough pieces to make it work in my life.

You can do the same. If you need a good example of a universal set of premises be careful to try out some you can learn to use properly. It needs to keep you focused in the present to be mindful of your problem. There are a few more things you need to make it work: do your best, do no harm and practice using the proper use of impressions.

With all four ideas you will be able to take your problem and apply mindfulness to be in the present while you learn to do your best to apply doing no harm while using the proper use of impressions. This can be difficult.

I simply read a lot of history to understand what I can learn from the past. I also committed myself to Epictetus to learn a good way to live a good life. I would read and journal about his work and learn to apply those four ideas to my problems. I tried to see how to do this by using Epictetus as a kind of mentor to practice this Greek idea of applying the proper use of impressions in all my affairs.

This is a personal philosophy I apply to all my problems to incrementally learn how to live a better life.

Don’t worry you have been doing this your whole life. I will try to share what it mean and how to do it with my own philosophy. We just need to practice and make a life long commitment to find a good way.