..."If I do this for myself I'll treat myself"..."How good I've been today to do so and so ( or not do so and so ), I deserve a reward or a pat on the back"... What?!!!
We are free souls and have total universal freewill, yet we hold ourselves in our own prisons and deny ourselves simple pleasures unless we think we've done something to deserve them. Even the methods of self-improvement teachers apply this as a technique, that we can coerce ourselves to become the better selves we think we should be. And we fall for it. Let me tell you - you do not need permission from anyone to do the things you want to do - not from yourself, not from gurus, not from God, not from advertizing agencies, and certainly not from bakers. And you don't need to "deserve" what you want - just give it to yourself. If it has consequences you don't like, deal with them - there's always consequences, and that's the nature of freewill. Do you see, it's just a game we are playing with ourselves, trying to trick ourselves into action - it's just a program and we use the trick to break out of the program. But you know it's a trick, you know it's a game, you're not a donkey so why do you fall for this carrot-dangling when you're holding the stick yourself? I don't get it. If you have to coax yourself into action (or out of it) with stimulus and reward, then maybe you don't really want to take that action. If you really, really, really want to do something, you will do it - you won't need any more stimulus than your desire, and doing it will be its own reward. Deserving doesn't come into it. If you need rewards to coax you, then maybe you should look more deeply into what it is you want and why you want it in the first place. Really - we treat ourselves like infants sometimes, and we don't know we're doing it. But we are multidimensional co-creators of the universe with god-given freewill, and we are adults. Stop waiting for permission to do the things you want to do, reward yourself often and always just for being YOU - and if a baker says you deserve a cream cake - buy 3 of them, just because you want to.
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