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January 4, 2021 Leave a Comment

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The Importance of Gratitude

You cannot be completely happy in your life if you’re not already aware of what you already have! Why? because you’re always chasing something you don’t have and even after getting it, it’s the same damn cycle over and over again!

” I’ll be happy when I get rich! “

” I’ll be happy when I cracked that exam or got that grade! “

” I’ll be happy if only he/she behave me better “

” I’ll be happy if my parents be that way “

People Please! Stop bullshi*ting yourself!

Life is a journey, Not a Destination! so learn to enjoy all of it.

Write down 3 things you’re grateful for every morning. It’s proven to make you more relaxed, healthy and happy.

Related: Freakonomics – Why Is My Life So Hard?

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December 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

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All We Have Is NOW

All we have is right NOW. We can’t guarantee our future self will make the right decisions, and we can’t undo the past mistakes. Stop making plans to be successful in the future and start taking massive action right this very second.

I’ve been super guilty of procrastination by planning, researching, etc. I make to do lists, spreadsheets and routines ad nauseum. I set alarms and reminders. I look at inspirational posts and daydream about the future only to never follow through. The act of making plans and lists satisfies me enough to wait till the next day to take action, which I never do.

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The Daily Man-Up: Lifestyle Creep

December 30, 2020 Leave a Comment

Lifestyle creep or “Lifestyle Inflation” occurs when your standard of living improves with your income rising. And what you might have seen as luxuries in the past are now becoming necessities in your life.

So as you start to generate more income, you actually slowly start spending more without really noticing.

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December 28, 2020 Leave a Comment

How To Finish What You Start

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Being a productive person comes down to one thing: You finish what you start. Period.

Projects unfinished, goals left behind, jumping for one thing to another, all of that reinforce the identify of being a lazy person.

You’re not a lazy person, simply you don’t finish what you start.

But, before we get into the tips, let’s go quickly over some of the mistakes that prevent us from finishing what we start.

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December 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

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10 Ways To Be A Mentally Stronger Person

1. Stop feeling sorry for yourself – The more you feel sorry for yourself, the more it’ll become an excuse to run away from your problems. This can be elaborated better with the help of a story I got to share with you. There’s a man who works as a gardener for many houses in my locality including one of my neighbors and he has been doing that for years. Off late, I learned that he has a hearing disability and I was left in shock because I was totally unaware of it. He’s one of the most hardworking folks of the maintenance department of our society and the fact that he never let his disability be his excuse to feel sorry for himself inspired me instantly. People like him give us all the more reason to not feel sorry for how life chooses to treat us. So let’s stop pitying ourselves and celebrate the little blessings of life.

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December 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

Advice from a Dying 24 Year-Old

Soon I will be gone forever, but that’s okay as long as someone reads this. I am only 24 years old, yet I have actually already chosen my last tie. It’s the one that I will wear on my funeral a few months from now. It may not match my suit, but I think it’s perfect for the occasion.

The cancer diagnosis came too late to give me at least a tenuous hope for a long life, but I realized that the most important thing about death is to ensure that you leave this world a little better than it was before you existed with your contributions . The way I’ve lived my life so far, my existence or more precisely the loss of it, will not matter because I have lived without doing anything impactful.

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December 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Start Saving for Retirement Now, Not Later

“I spent my 20s recklessly, but your 30s should be when you make a big financial push. Retirement planning is not something to put off. Understanding boring things like insurance, 401ks & mortgages is important since its all on your shoulders now. Educate yourself.” (Kash, 41)

The most common piece of advice — so common that almost every single email said at least something about it — was to start getting your financial house in order and to start saving for retirement… today.

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The Daily Man-Up: Stop Waiting

December 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Stop waiting. Start doing. It’s all too easy to tell ourselves that once we lose twenty pounds, we’ll be happy, or once we have more free time, we’ll start reading more, or once we’re on that new project at work and have shorter hours, we’ll start going back to the gym. We think we’re too busy now to do that thing we want to do, or we’ll be happy once we’ve done that thing, but we haven’t even started working on it.

The Daily Man-Up: Learn How to Fail Skillfully

December 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

You’ve been learning how to succeed in your attempts here at self-discipline and setting good habits. Ideally you’ve learned how to discern your highest priorities, create a good plan, and to take immediate action on it.

There’s this flip side, though, to proper self-discipline which is learning how to fail masterfully – as the companion to learning to succeed. If you can develop your ability to fail masterfully, then you’re effectively moving into a more psychologically stable place for long-term growth.

The idea here is that if you can develop a proper relationship with failure, then you no longer need to be polarized (i.e. unnerved) by it, and you can move toward your greater growth with a sense of balance, a certain steadiness without all the triumphant highs and miserable lows.

The purpose of this post, therefore, is speak to this all-important element of self-discipline. Here we go:

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December 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Distinguishing the key differences between Nice Guys and genuinely good men.

In this world, there is a subset of men that believe women are only attracted to assholes.

Which is true, if you preface this belief with ‘very few’.

The vast majority of women are attracted to good men.

The subset of men that believe otherwise are Nice Guys.

What’s a Nice Guy?

A man that displays overwhelming acts of kindness towards women, with a firm expectation of immediate romantic or sexual rewards.

Some of the common traits of a Nice Guy include:

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