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Rule 12: Don’t Let Your Winters Fuck Up Your Springtime
“The Ice man was as lonely as an iceberg in the dark night.” —Haruky Murakami. Life cools your heart as the years go by. The losses, the goodbyes, the disappointments. The cold does not heal the wounds, but it anesthetizes the pain. When you grow up, you learn to detach yourself from things, dreams, and…
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Rule 11: Nothing Is What It Seems.
“Nature hides. It does not reveal. All this luminous and dark universe whose sum of energies we call nature is a mask, a dress, a dream. Nature is not Isis but the veil of Isis.” —Fernando Pessoa. The Egyptian goddess Isis was so powerful that, according to Egyptian mythology, she resurrected her husband and protected…
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Rule 10: Remember, You’re Going to Die.
Do it because it is powerful. When you are aware that you will die, you don’t let opportunities slip away. When you are aware that you will die, you don’t get bitter about silly things. When you are aware that you will die, you focus on your goals and being happy. When you know that…
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Rule 9: You Only Get One Chance. Take Action
You’ll have time to rest when you’re dead. —Robert De Niro. Life is a game without extra lives. You only get one chance. It won’t be easy, but it will be intense. Take your chances and remember that no one has bought tomorrow. So apply yourself today and do your best. Don’t be afraid to…
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Rule 8: Eat the Frog First
“Concentrate every minute like a Roman on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions.” ― Marcus Aurelius. Your energy diminishes during the day. If you want to dedicate the maximum of your potential to something, the best thing you…
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Rule 7: Improving Your Goals Improves Your Day-to-day Life
“A goal is not always meant to be achieved; many times, it serves as something to aim for.” —Bruce Lee. Goals don’t just serve to make you rich and famous. They’re also for improving your life. When we have the victim mentality, we are driven by the past. We regret our life, which has brought…
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Rule 6: Focus on the Right Things
“Under control are opinions, aspirations, desires, and things repel us. Out of control, however, are things like the kind of body we have, being born into wealth or not, the way others see us, and our position in society.” —Epictetus. Now that we know how to overcome laziness (rule 5), we must learn how to…
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Rule 5: The Best Advice for Overcoming Laziness
“A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. Only you and I, with our big brains and tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” —Steven Pressfield, Book: Do the Work. The best advice against laziness is not to hesitate. As we have already seen, laziness is an…
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Rule 4: No Pain, No Gain
“Our trouble is we can’t cope with our suffering or the suffering out there, so we want to make it all go away. We can’t. All we can do is do our best in this crazy insane asylum called planet Earth.” -Buddhist nun Robina Courtin. We don’t pursue most of our dreams because we don’t…
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Rule 3: Understanding Resistance to Change
“The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.” —Frank Kafka. For a new you to be born, the old you has to die; you can only…