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Don’t fall into the entitlement trap
Life doesn’t owe you a thing. Every person on this planet is facing some struggle. It may be mental, it may be physical, it may be one you can totally relate to or not at all.
Everyone has a bunch of demons locked in their closet and life offers little sympathy and help to make them go away. Whatever you want, it is your responsibility to go out there and do what’s necessary to get it — regardless of what life throws at you.
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Define success for yourself
The only way to not get dragged into a never-ending cycle of wanting more is to define success for yourself. What do you really want? If the answer is still money, that’s fine! But maybe you’d prefer being healthy and fit, having a happy family, or a thriving marriage.
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Seek joy, not happiness
- McConaughey’s next lesson addresses our often backward approach to finding happiness: “Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy, if I don’t, I won’t. It’s an if-then, cause-and-effect, quid-pro-quo standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately ...
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Never say anything is “unbelievable”
When you say, “What an unbelievable performance!” all you’re really doing is placing something out of your own realm of possibility that’s actually already proven to lay inside it.
“Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, belie...
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Make decisions you’ll be happy about tomorrow
Instead of making choices that’ll cost us tomorrow, we can also create outcomes that pay us back.
The concept of ROI — return on investment — can be applied anywhere. Whether it’s setting up the coffee maker and laying out your clothes the night before, preparing for a...
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Should You Take Time to “Relax” Your Meaning of Life?
Meanings are an important part of living life well. What’s necessary is that, from time to time, you should be able to temporarily “relax” your meanings in life.
These meaningness relaxations may be related to specific situations (i.e. how you think about your future career) or it cou...
How the Pattern Started
It can be useful to look at your own behavior in your relationships. Look at the role you usually play across all types of relationships.
Look at the early relationships you saw in your family, how you communicated your needs, and how your needs were met. It can reveal how you might relate...
Isolate the Incident
An optimist, looks at the event as an isolated incident largely disconnected from other things that are going on in their life.
A pessimist will take the incident and add it to a laundry list of other things going on in their life.
So, to remain posit...
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