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How To Take 100% Responsibility For Your Life
What Commitment Means
Even when life gets difficult, you seeing your goal through the end is what commitment looks like.
Your decision is final no matter what happens, and you see to it and make sure it gets implemented.
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“Life is essentially an endless series of problems—the solution to one problem is merely the creation of the next..."
Mark Manson
Life as a Paradox
Life is full of paradoxes, and anything and everything that we hope for or desire only leads to more anxiety and stress, creating new problems for us.
We can be content. But it's not simple. To understand why we seem to be constantly dissatisfied with ourselves and the world, we must understand some basic psychological principles.
Psychological Thermostats
Our behavior, contentment, desires, expectations, and body clocks are set differently, and this may lead to conflicts and problems with others.
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Hill was a charlatan
Napoleon Hill was said to be an advisor to two presidents: Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
In fact, there’s no evidence whatsoever outside of Hill’s own writings that Hill ...
Hill and Carnegie
Napoleon Hill’s most infamous claim was that he met and interviewed at length the industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1908.
Andrew Carnegie's biographer David Nasaw found no evidence of any sort that Carnegie and Hill ever met.
Serial swindler
Napoleon Hill tried his hand at a number of businesses. But at every turn, there was some kind of shady dealing that would cause his business ventures to crumble.
Promoters of Hill claim that it was all a matter of bad luck, and Hill's naivety. However, there are only so many times that a man can be arrested for the sale of unlicensed stock, altering checks, and outright theft, before you have to question the official history.
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To be average in today's world
- Is to spend more than half of your work day in a semi-conscious state, in-and-out of focus
- to be addicted to technology, stimulants, unhealthy eating, and distraction
- to lack p...
Being in a peak state
... means you’re operating at the level you want to be, so that you can achieve ambitions beyond anything you've done before. You can reach this state by:
- Getting your body moving and breathing deeply (some of the easiest ways to get into a peak state).
- Listening to music that motivates you.
- Giving a genuine compliment or being kind to someone.
- Learning and expanding your mind.
Morning rituals
They are what triggers a peak state.
The core purpose for having a morning routine is to put yourself into a peak state in the morning — so you can then operate from that state for the rest of your day. Rather than being reactive, addicted, and unconscious in your morning — it’s far better to proactively put yourself in a peak state in a ritualistic manner.