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Most of us go through life feeling like we’re not in control.
Our time is filled with things we have to do, while our dreams with things we assume we can’t do.
Social and financial duties dictate most of our behavior, while the remainder of our choices are constrained by fear.
Our time is filled with things we have to do, while our dreams with things we assume we can’t do.
Social and financial duties dictate most of our behavior, while the remainder of our choices are constrained by fear.
It doesn't have to be that way.
You can gradually overcome your anxieties and eliminate the external obstacles holding you back.
You can take back control. Your life can be yours, it should be yours.
Here's how
You can gradually overcome your anxieties and eliminate the external obstacles holding you back.
You can take back control. Your life can be yours, it should be yours.
Here's how
Make a short to-do list for every day
Three items maximum, and the fewer the better.
Make sure you put only tasks in your list, not goals and objectives
Three items maximum, and the fewer the better.
Make sure you put only tasks in your list, not goals and objectives
Do something that scares you at least once a week
Fear has been known to hold us from doing what we want in life.
When you build the habit of facing your fears, you become inured to fear.
You then start breaking free of the artificial self-imposed constraints that fear creates
Fear has been known to hold us from doing what we want in life.
When you build the habit of facing your fears, you become inured to fear.
You then start breaking free of the artificial self-imposed constraints that fear creates
Cut back on caffeine and alcohol
Both have their uses, alcohol for relaxing and socializing, caffeine for staying alert in the mornings
But most people consume too much. Try cutting your consumption in half. You'll most likely get the same benefitsa
Both have their uses, alcohol for relaxing and socializing, caffeine for staying alert in the mornings
But most people consume too much. Try cutting your consumption in half. You'll most likely get the same benefitsa
As an added benefit,
You will stop depending on Caffeine and Alcohol to feel good.
You will stop depending on Caffeine and Alcohol to feel good.
Build your network
Stay in touch with people in your industry
Go to events with them, meet other people
Focus on giving value to people, and don’t worry about what you’ll get out of it for now
You’ll need your network someday, it’s important to build a network before you do.
Stay in touch with people in your industry
Go to events with them, meet other people
Focus on giving value to people, and don’t worry about what you’ll get out of it for now
You’ll need your network someday, it’s important to build a network before you do.
Say no to almost everything
Before taking on a new obligation, ask yourself- Does this earn it’s way into my life? Most often the answer will be no.
Avoid everything that sucks up your time and in extention - your life.
Before taking on a new obligation, ask yourself- Does this earn it’s way into my life? Most often the answer will be no.
Avoid everything that sucks up your time and in extention - your life.
Prepare for the worst.
There is this saying 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst'
Figure out what you’re most afraid of happening.
Come up with simple plans to:
1. Reduce the probability of each of those things, and
2. Respond if and when they do happen.
There is this saying 'hope for the best, prepare for the worst'
Figure out what you’re most afraid of happening.
Come up with simple plans to:
1. Reduce the probability of each of those things, and
2. Respond if and when they do happen.
Our fear is greatest when the thing we’re afraid of is unknown or poorly defined.
Once we've thought through how we'd deal with the thing we fear,
we'll find the anxiety we feel greatly diminished.
Once we've thought through how we'd deal with the thing we fear,
we'll find the anxiety we feel greatly diminished.
Practice poverty
Seneca the Younger said it best:
"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?”..
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Seneca the Younger said it best:
"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: “Is this the condition that I feared?”..
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.. It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while Fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence...
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... In days of peace the soldier performs maneuvers, throws up earthworks with no enemy in sight, and wearies himself by gratuitous toil, in order that he may be equal to unavoidable toil. If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes"
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Stop spending time on social media
Social media is the number one way that people waste time when they should be doing something productive.
It usually isn’t even fun- it has become a cesspit of pointless arguments, and unhealthy social comparison
Social media is the number one way that people waste time when they should be doing something productive.
It usually isn’t even fun- it has become a cesspit of pointless arguments, and unhealthy social comparison
Start a side business
Having a second income source provides the same benefits as saving money: less stress, more financial freedom.
A side business gives you control over your life, the thought of scaling up your business if you lose your job gives you tremendous flexibility.
Having a second income source provides the same benefits as saving money: less stress, more financial freedom.
A side business gives you control over your life, the thought of scaling up your business if you lose your job gives you tremendous flexibility.
