Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World
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What To Do When You Feel Stuck
For the most part, I’ve lived by the maxim that says if you don’t like something in your life, change it. Don’t complain about it. Don’t blame someone else for it, and don’t merely tolerate it. Instead, get busy, and get to work doing all you can to change it. It’s a strategy that’s paid off for me time and again, and I highly recommend it for most of life’s troubles.
Still, there are situations that are beyond our ability to change. No matter how hard we try, we’ll never make them different than what they are. The loss of a loved one, for example, or the ending of a relationship that’s run its course.
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How Self-Compassion Helps Strengthen Your Motivation
“This isn’t working,” said the voice inside my head. “You’re not doing it right. If you paint over it now, it’s just gonna peel again in a year or two, and you’ll have to repaint it. You’re wasting your time.”
“You’re right,” I thought. “I’m really frustrated, and I just want to quit.”
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Life Always Gives You What You Need
“The strongest oak tree in the forest,” wrote Napoleon Hill, “is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”
Likewise, singer and civil rights activist Bernice Johnson Reagon reminds us that “life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”
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