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Setting standards
Your quality of life improves when you set clear standards for how you live.
You gravitate back towards “so-so” in any area where your standards are unclear.
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Dismissing self-discipline
For example: brushing your teeth every day doesn’t require any sort of forcing or obsessing, just dental hygiene standards you co...
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Self-imposed rules aren’t constraints
They’re good decisions made in batches—they’re behavioral boundary markers you get to position yourself, through your own experience and wisdom.
Despite our fear of rules, the feeling of acting in accordance with a well-considered personal rule is actually a palpable feeling of p...
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Patterns in successful people
Wherever they excel, they tend to have personal rules that they take very seriously:
- Financially effective people tend to hold themselves to certain rules about money.
- Fit, energetic people tend to have personal rules about health.
- Productive peo...
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"Losing" freedom
We’ve all experienced the pain of living under unfair or unsympathetic rules, especially the ones imposed on us as children by teachers and grownups.
We fear the prospect of losing any of our freedom, and we tend to think of rules as devices that only constrain.
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Setting healthy boundaries
Set your personal boundaries, so you have dedicated time to take care of yourself, your family or household, and your professional responsibilities. You won't be any good to your family if you regularly jump up to respond to work.
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3. Clarify
When you are clear on what is important to you, there comes an incredible sense of freedom. You no longer live in a world of social comparison. You are running your own race. Goals, big decisions & small habits are surmountable & invigorating because you have a clear picture of ...
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