"When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy."

-James Altucher

1. Rate your regulars to say no to the wrong people.
2. Stop doing things you don’t like, and everyone will be better off.
3. Say no to scarcity to go beyond “glas half full”.

Ready to say no (you have to say yes this time)? Yes! Let’s do it!

We all know ’em.

The people that every time we talk to, we walk away from and feel a little worse than before.

In an ideal world, we’d just get rid of them entirely, but often that’s not possible.

However, you can reduce the time you spend with them.

You are the average of the 5 people you surround yourself with. And while you can’t CHANGE the people around you, you can change THE PEOPLE around you.

Step by step.

Eventually, you’ll only be left with an inner circle that helps you thrive.

This year started out rough for me. At 52 years old, my uncle died in his sleep.

Stopping to do things we don’t like was one of the biggest lessons his death taught me (read more about it in that day’s summary).

Ja...

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Even worse, the people who give you the work will feel bad too, because they’ll see that you don’t rea...

One way you can do better at this is to just shift your focus to the abundance all around you .

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Have you ever had a friend help you move while they actually had to study for exams?

You probably felt bad for “making them help you”, so it was a lose-lose situation.

So instead of conforming to other people’s expectations, form your own and

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The 14 year old who keeps wondering what he should do his homework for, the 21 year old college student, who feels forced to get a degree just because her parents expect it, and anyone who’s currently in a job they don’t really like.

James Altucher ‘s universal advice to anyone is to choose yourself , but to do that, you first have to stop choosing others and letting them choose you.

That, naturally, incl...

Here’s a good exercise for that.

1. Make a list of all the people you see at least 5 times a week.
2. Rate how the encounters with these people make you feel, 1 is the worst, 10 is the best.

With the results you instantly know who m...