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9. Practice frequent, specific and broad gratitude
- Studies show that gratitude is linked to better mental health, self-awareness, better relationships, and a sense of fulfillment.
- Every night, spend five minutes writing down the things you are grateful for.
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1. Clarify Your Identity
The first step to thinking like a monk is to get clear on your values. How?
- List your values.
- Identify the origin of that value.
- Reflect on whether or not that value aligns with your true self.
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7. Master the Mind
- The key to mastering the mind is detachment. Instead of telling yourself “I am angry”, you can say, “I feel angry” or “There is anger.” Don’t identify with the emotion; observe it.
- The Monkey Mind
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3. Get intimate with fear, then detach.
In order to use fear productively, we need to
- Acknowledge the fear
- Rate the fear (0-10)
- Find your fear patterns
- Detach from the fear
Accept that f...
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10. Understand and nurture relationships
Five reasons people get attracted to someone else:
- Physical – you like their looks
- Material – you like their possessions, power, or accomplishments
- Intellectual – you like how they think
- Emotional – you connect well. They understand your feelings....
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8. Build self-esteem, not ego
The ego is problematic in many ways:
- It makes us liars, which breaks trust
- It creates false hierarchies, which creates discrimination and ruins kindness
- It creates judgment, which ruins our ch...
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6. Improve Your Routines And Habits
Take control of the beginning and end of our days with a good morning routine and evening routine.
For the morning routine,
- Thankfulness
- Insight
- Meditation
- Exercise
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“Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than reality.”
JAY SHETTY
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5. Live Your Purpose and Dharma
When we use our passions and expertise to provide something that others need, we will have true happiness and fulfillment.
Dharma = Passion + Expertise + Usefulness
“Your passion is for you. Your purpose is for others” - Jay Shetty
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11. Service is the direct path to a happy and fulfilling life
Jay says, “Take care of yourself—yes. But don’t wait until you have enough time and money to serve. You will never have enough.” He also asks, “Who is wealthier, the one with money or the one who serves?”
He also urges us to serve with a kind intention witho...
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2. Reverse negativity with Spot-Stop-Swap
In order to overcome bad habits, Use Spot, Stop, Swap:
- Spot the negative feeling.
- Stop to understand what it is.
- Swap in a way of processing the feeling.
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“Petty, negative thoughts and words are like mosquitos: Even the smallest ones can rob us of our peace.”
JAY SHETTY
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4. Hone Good Intentions
The Four Levels of Motivation
- Fear - is being driven by negative things like sickness, poverty, and death.
- Desire - is being driven by personal gratification through wealth, success, and pleasure.
- Duty - is being moti...
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"A good curated idea should be like a girl's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest."
In our modern society, people are so preoccupied with chasing “happiness”, and their image of happiness is based on what the media shows: fame, money, glamour, pleasure. The problem is, people will just seek more and more of these things, leading to frustration, disillusion, unhappiness, and exhaustion.
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2. Practice Gratitude Journaling
Mental health is on the decline. Two of the main factors are
- Increased feelings of loneliness;
- Poor diet.
Studies show that those who practice gratitude journaling 3-4 times a week have reported feeling less
Keep a gratitude journal
Studies Trusted Source have found that writing down the things you’re grateful for can improve your optimism and sense of well-being. You can do this by writing in a gratitude journal every day, or jotting down a list of things y...
Gratitude Kills Negativity
Gratitude has been called as a 'natural antideressant'
Studies on gratitude are linked with increase feeling of long last happiness and contentment.
Gratitude has also been linked with:
- Better sleep
- Builds emotional awareness
- Promotes physical healt...
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