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One effective exercise you can do today to boost both happiness and health is a gratitude walk.

How to Do a Gratitude Walk: Set Aside 15-30 Minutes: Find a peaceful place to walk, whether it’s a park, your neighborhood, or even a quiet spot indoors.

Focus on Your Surroundings: As you walk, pay attention to your surroundings—nature, sounds, fresh air, and any other elements that bring you peace.

Practice Gratitude: For each step, think of something you’re grateful for. It could be as simple as appreciating your health, family, the beauty around you, or even small joys in life.

Breathe Deeply: Take deep breaths, inhaling positivity and exhaling any stress or negativity.

Stay Present: Keep your mind focused on the present moment, avoiding distractions or worries.

This simple exercise combines physical activity with mindfulness, helping to reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance your overall well-being.

If you want to kill a big dream, share it with a small-minded person.

What you can never change:

1. The past
2. The world
3. Other people

What you can always change:

1. Your attitude
2. Your assumptions
3. Your beliefs

figure out what comes easy to you,
then go hard at it!

“Don’t believe everything you think.”

Just because a thought pops into your head doesn’t make it true, or useful.

Interrogate your thoughts. Find the ones that serve you, and ditch the rest!

In The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes talks about the problem of worry: "We must heal ourselves from worry. This tension is relaxed as we gain confidence in good, in truth and in beauty. Faith must overcome fear, and strong statements of faith should be used to erase the thoughts of doubt and worry that have assailed us."

Today, let's notice when our thoughts stray into worry. Let us affirm instead, "Today, everything goes right - everything expresses for the highest and best in my life." Let today be a day of living in the present moment and looking forward to the wonderful expansive journey ahead!

One piece of advice for young people.

Don’t go seeking the “big house”. And don’t view your primary home as an investment, as you’re told it is.

Buy something modest and affordable, and make do. Reduce the stress of repayments and plow ALL that extra cash into your investment journey, including Bitcoin.

You’ll have to make do with the smaller house compared to your friends. You won’t have the flex. But within a decade, you’ll be compounding at an accelerating rate. And your options will be plentiful. While your friends look for a bigger McMansion to flex, they will be buried deep into house and living paycheck to paycheck.

This is important because early on housing is such a large monthly nut. It all but consumes your investable ability, at a time when the earlier you start meaningfully investing the far better off you will be.

Yes, I know that requires a little sacrifice and looking “long term”, something many are adverse to doing. But that time does come around, and having more options and flexibility when you’re older and wiser is far more powerful.

Most people need consistency more than they need intensity.

Intensity:
-run a marathon
-write a book in 30 days
-silent meditation retreat

Consistency:
-don't miss a workout for 2 years
-write every week
-daily silence

Intensity makes a good story. Consistency makes progress.

Have you ever felt the magic of a simple gesture of kindness? It’s astonishing how a small thing can transform your entire day.
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Whether it's a warm smile from a stranger or a heartfelt compliment from someone who truly sees you, these moments create waves of positivity.
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Imagine a world where kindness blooms a little brighter each day.
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Think about someone who might be facing challenges; a genuine "How are you?" can make them feel valued and understood.
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Let’s cultivate these small moments of kindness. They’re not just gifts to others; they enrich our own lives as well.
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Kindness nurtures empathy, patience, and understanding within us.
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And who knows, your kind gesture might be the brightest part of someone's day.

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." ~ Nelson Mandela

Start simple, start now.

Perfection comes from progress, not planning.

Remember the first rule of wing-walking; don't let go of what you've got a hold of until you've got a hold of something else.

There is no formula for success, but there are two formulas for failure: not starting and not persisting.

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." - Novelist Chuck Palahniuk

You’ll never meet a very successful pessimistic person. If you want to be remarkable, get better at being optimistic.

If you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table rather than a taller fence.

Most arguments are not really about the argument, so most arguments can’t be won by arguing ;-)

"If you don't know where you're going, every road will get you nowhere." - Henry Kissinger

Feelings are not facts.
(important to remember)

Read more books than those who have a formal education, developing this into a lifelong habit.

The things with the greatest mental payoff are generally the same things that would have made a hunter gatherer happy: exercise, being in nature, laughing with friends, s*x and companionship, eating delicious food, focusing on a task, watching your kids (nieces and nephews in my case) play.

Every time you say something out loud, your brain pounds it in a little further. Be careful what you say.

So much of our obsessive, internal thought process tends to disconnect us from the world.

Drink water
Exercise each day
Get to bed on time
Floss the teeth you wanna keep
Set up a DCA
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