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How to find inspiration in everyday life
How to stay motivated
How to cultivate a positive mindset
Examples of karmic habits
- If you grew up with cheating and fighting between your parents, you will be more likely to look for cheating signs in your adult relationships
- If you were abused as a child, you will be more likely to see abusive behavior around you and to become an abuser yourself
- If you make a habit of fiddling your tax return, you will feel more anxious as the IRS might catch you and you need to be careful who you are honest with
- If you make a habit of criticizing others, you will have a tendency to point out the shortcomings of others and miss out their good qualities
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Practical tips to break free from destructive behaviors
In general:
- Be mindful of the urges you're feeling
- Allow negative urges to arise and depart naturally without acting on them. This will gradually weaken them and allow you to break your old habits.
When you realize you acted out a negative urge, you can lessen its i...
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Karma
Karma refers to the mental urges that bring us to act in compulsive ways. Acting out these urges, we reinforce our old habits and condition ourselves to acting in a certain way. So we continue to repeat our patterns of behavior and we experience our moods going up and dow...
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Examples of Priming
- Asking somebody whether he thinks an environment tax of 20% is too high or too low. If it is higher than what he/she had in mind, the answer will still be lower, but closer to 20% than it would have been before. Same for when it is higher.
- Telling a judge how many years ago you cam...
The Power of Good Habits for Achieving Great Things
The best way to face less resistance when doing good things is by slowly making it a habit. Good habits are tough to start. But they can give you enough momentum so that every good action will take less effort.
For example, while exercising can be difficult at first, it becomes much easie...
Daily habits of inspirational people
- Focus on the process, not the outcome: feel inspired by the work you do and by everything that is required to achieve results.
- pay attention to your impact, to how you make others feel and then make sure it's the kind of impact you want to be hav...
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