# Bookmarked: Just One Good Thing

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2025-08-14
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2025/08/14/just-one-good-thing/
- Categories: link, philosophy
- Tags: career, contentment, control, discontentment, life, philosophy

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> The one thing can be small or big, easy or labored, fleeting or long. I carve out time to go play drums for two hours, go for a bouldering session, do a shorter 20 minute run, read a page of a book, eat something I’m really excited about, and more. Even on the most difficult day, I can adjust and find the smallest thing that I am excited about and do it. I needed some way to change my outlook. Developing a habit that is less about more and embracing the simple and ordinary has brought me a semblance of peace. It’s allowed for adaptability and resilience when the days go sideways and joy and delight on days that go smoothly. Just. One. Good. Thing.

*Source:* [Naz Hamid • Just One Good Thing](https://nazhamid.com/journal/just-one-good-thing/)

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<p>I think this is a healthy understanding of cutting comparisons and bringing control over what brings you satisfaction and achieving it. Comparisons are fundamentally energy sapping. They totally over simplify context and leave you <em>wanting</em> something while both negating the external circumstances and most critically, fully discounting if you <em>really </em>want that achievement or accomplishment with all its externalities.</p>
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<p>Reigning control over what you want, with enough reflection is the true answer for sustained contentment - the true secret to a life, lived and enjoyed. </p>
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<p>I love this. </p>
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