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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…
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Rule 2: Take Advantage of Your Quality Time
Every hour lost in youth is a possibility of misfortune in the future. —Napoleon Bonaparte. Quality time is usually less than life time. Longevity and mobility are not precisely synonymous. You can live a hundred years but develop a disease that leaves you immobile at seventy. And those last 30 years, what will you do?…
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Rule 1: Knowledge is Not Enough
Knowledge and courage alternate greatness. Advice andstrength, eyes and hands; without courage, wisdom is sterile. —Baltasar Gracián. Knowledge must be implemented, or it does not work. It is useless to read a self-help book if you don’t apply the principles you find in it. It would be like reading a diet and not doing it.…