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How to Live an Un-Boring Life
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You’re Choosing To Live The Way You Live Right Now
We are responsible for the life we’re living right now. If your life is boring, you have the power to make changes.
Feeling helpless won’t be beneficial in the long term. So instead, make the decision to take ownership and choose the things that will transform your life into something that you're enjoying and cherishing.
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Keeping The Outside World Happy
There’s so much pressure to live our lives in a specific way (from society and our families) and most of us fall for the trap of pleasing the expectations of others.
But you’re the one living your live and so there is no one more capable to decide what your life should look like.
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"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
Steve Jobs
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Dealing With Regret And Mistakes
- Mistakes are inevitable in life. But how you react to them is entirely in your control. You can choose to beat yourself up about them of you can learn from them.
- Regret is pretty pointless. It makes you feel bad about the past and it does nothing for your future.
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"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."
Mark Twain
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Change your definition of time
Spread out your interests/passions over seven days instead of 24-hours. Assuming you are awake for 16 hours a day, you now have around 112 hours to tend to everything.
We box our decision making into a 24-hour window. We feel like we have to accomplish all our tasks within the 24 hour day - such as our jobs, interests, and leisure time. But if you had over 100 hours to do all of these tasks, how much would you be able to accomplish?
A system for each of your pursuits
Creating a system allows you to allocate a set time to each pursuit as well as other important tasks.
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