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Be Alone
Are you afraid to be alone? Does it make you wildly uncomfortable? If not, when is your favourite time to be alone?
Being able to be alone is a pretty good sign of an independent mind and of someone who is at home in their own skin.
Learn to be alone. Alone without your phone. Alone without anyone else. Alone with your thoughts. And allow yourself to consider the thoughts that float through your mind. By considering each thought slowly and methodically and then letting it continue to float away helps you better understand your own thinking. This is better than allowing anyone and everyone to influence you with their opinion without consideration.
Try it today! Even for just five minutes. Then you can work up to a whole hour or two!
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Be Stoic
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Feel Special
Regardless of what anyone says, life is better when you make yourself feel special.
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Seek Good News
Stop listening to or reading the bad news out there. It all messes with your brain. There is rarely any beneficial information in the bad news.
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Be Curious
Being curious is a superpower. It usually means you develop good enquiry skills and learn to listen critically too.
It also makes you more interesting because you seem interested in learning more about the people around you and the things that are interesting to them.
So stop telling people about yourself and start asking others about their experiences.
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Regret
As you grow older you’ll notice things you regret doing and not doing. You can’t change the past so you will need to accept these things or drive yourself crazy.
You do the best you can at any given moment with all the information that you have. Hindsight is lovely but it is not what you had in the moment.
Go easy on yourself. You are human. Not perfection. And go easier on others too, for the same reason.
Forgiveness and grace are very powerful tools.
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Be Prepared
Some of you will know this as the Boy Scout motto. Some of you will remember it as a line from a film.
Either way, it makes sense.
When preparation meets opportunity, you may find your life taking off like a rocket. ????
Enjoy that moment and all the moments after that.
It’s amazing!
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Appreciate The Process
It might not always make sense. For some, it might seem completely wrong. But once you’re involved and working through a matter, appreciate the process.
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Make The Time To Plan
We think about what we would like but don’t commit actual time to write it down and do the hard mental work of figuring it all out.
We need a clear destination. This can shift and change later but we need something to focus on now. Then work backwards to see what you can do to achieve your goal.
Take a few hours and doodle some notes out, to consider, as the days progress.
If you won’t take five hours over the next seven days to plan your amazing future, then whatever you get will just have to do!
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Set Boundaries
We all need some personal boundaries. We need to be clear what we are delighted with and what is not bringing us joy. Set your boundaries and see what happens.
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