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Just here trying to learn as much as I can.

[LJ @LJ00662093]

@MarioTheDom I can do it, but I’m not able to DM you. I edit a lot as part of my job.

[LJ @LJ00662093]

@mikehoffmann Course

[LJ @LJ00662093]

@_apryor I’m in. Excited!

[F I T Z @LogFitz6]

YOU NEED TO BE HAVING MORE FUN

ABSOLUTE LAUGHTRACKS OF DAYS

YOU HAVE A HYPOTHETICAL FORK IN THE ROAD AT EVERY MICROSECOND

A DECISION TO MAKE

HERE’S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

I wish more people knew it's ok for people to be mad, disappointed or upset.

You don't need to fix everything for everyone.

Why We Need To Stop Emotionally Monitoring:

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

In successful relationships people are trusted and have autonomy.

Why micromanaging is creating resentment in your relationships:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I recently came across a beautiful Buddhist teaching: The Two Arrows.

The Buddha once asked his student, "If a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful?"

The student nodded, yes.

The Buddha then asked, "If a person is struck by a second arrow, is that even more painful?"

The student again nodded, yes.

The Buddha then explained, "In life, we cannot always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional."

The first arrow is the negative event that hits our lives.

This is the uncontrollable chaos that we may find ourselves thrown into from time to time.

The first arrow is impossible to avoid. It hits and it hurts.

The second arrow is governed by our response to the first—and as the parable teaches us, being struck by the second arrow is entirely within our control.

Our reaction and response controls the direction and force of the second arrow:

• If we attach ourselves to the pain of the first arrow, continue to think all of the negative thoughts it brought about, repeat the patterns of our past, dwell in the pain, and bemoan our bad luck, we send the second arrow hurtling straight into our open wound.

• If we pause, breathe, give ourselves a moment to reset, and choose a balanced response, we send the second arrow falling feebly to the ground.

Viktor Frankl, the Austrian philosopher and Holocaust survivor renowned for his contributions to existential psychology, has a brilliant framing for this:

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."

Our power is in the space that we can create between stimulus and response.

Creating that space is the key to avoiding the second arrow.

As Frankl famously said, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

So the next time you encounter an uncontrollable negative event in your life—when you're struck by that painful first arrow—consider the parable of the two arrows.

The first arrow may have hurt, but the second arrow is always optional.

[DR22 Ω 🪬🎭 @DejaRu22]

By far the single most powerful way to move through the world is as if everything is just one big inside joke and curriculum that exists for the sole benefit of your personal evolution. Everything becomes funny. Every obstacle is appreciated. Every experience injected with joy.

[Zach Homol @zachhomol_]

My brother… in Christ

If you struggle with anxiety, depression

YOU CAN NOT BE ON SOCAIL MEDIA

You gotta get off here…. Too much comparison, too much distraction and clutter in the mind

Go outside. Go challenge the body and mind with physical fitness
Eat good food. You must cut out all the junk.

“But, but I learn on here” sure. But what has that lead to? Look at your situation.

Go heal yourself. No one* can do this for you

-your friend Zach

[Coltybrah @coltybrah]

If you’re smart. You need to adopt the misfit mentality. You’re the misfit you’re prepared to endure all positive & negative consequences. You prevail under any condition.

“Logic” will not hold you back.

Stop worrying start pressing.

[Murima Media ®️ @itsjim_ke]

Go to school

Get in debt

Get a Shit job

Get a wife

Divorce is coming

Lose half your shit.

Inflation will outpaces your wages

work your entire life

No one will ever appreciate it

And then get old

Spend your last years in a ‘nursing home’

And then die

That is the Matrix for 99% of men, and you need to find a way to escape.

Follow if you understand @RenaisanceMan_

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

By 32 years old I could barely get out of bed.

I started blanking out during conversations. I had no memory. I dreamt about leaving the country and running away from my own life.

It took me years to understand what was actually going on:

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Ways to not feel stressed when ‘bad’ stuff happens:

1) Decide it isn’t bad. It just is. Remind yourself that you’re the one calling it bad. Most ‘bad’ things in the micro becomes ‘good’ things in the macro.

2) See if you can remember something of equal importance from 20 years ago. If not, it probably won’t matter in the future. And it won’t matter then, it doesn’t matter now.

3) Imagine this bad thing happened every hour of everyday for the next two years. How would you feel on the 1,000th time of this happening? Probably like it’s just ‘part of life’. If it can feel that way then, it can feel that way now.

4) Remind yourself that if you zoom far enough out in space. Right now. That you can’t even see the earth. Reminds us that big problems are only big when compared to small things. Change what you compare your problems to, and they become small problems (or stop being one all together).

5) Remind yourself that right now. We remember entire civilizations as the ancient “X-ans”. Romans. Sumerians. Babylonians. And we may be the Ancient Americans to a future gen. Barely even remembering names of leaders. If we can’t remember their names, their problems certainly didn’t matter.

6) Jail. Bankruptcy. Ridicule. Whatever “terrible” thing it is. Be grateful that you get to have this unique human experience. Most people may not ever experience it. But you can. Which gives you deeper insight no one can take from you. And that’s something to be grateful for.

7) Remind yourself that the output of hard circumstances is strong character. After all, hard people don’t come from easy times. So we can’t wish for one without the other. In many cases, we’re getting our wish - to become the best version of ourselves. And this is just the way we become it.

These frames have helped me more than I can say. Hope they helps you.

[Degen Hunter @DegenHuntin]

My therapist told me that:

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

The average person has never put their ALL into ANYTHING.

Imagine how high you could go if you recruited every fiber of your being, directed at 1 target & were courageous enough to not give a fuck if it succeeds or fails.

Try.

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Codependency wires you to feel like a burden, to put other people's needs before your own, and to perform for love.

Then you're expected to suffer in silence.

Why you're NOT meant to do it all:

[Grant Lannin @retirementkeys]

Stop HIDING.

Really pay attention 2 ur mind for a full day - how much ENERGY are u wasting HIDING who u are?

WHAT are u pushing down?

What are you AFRAID will bubble to the surface & cause someone to write you off completely & immediately?

Make the unconscious, conscious.

[Idil Ahmed @idillionaire]

Rest your mind. Everything always works out.

You are doing your best. You came so far and sometimes you just need to pause for a moment and acknowledge yourself. Look at what you overcame. Look at how strong you are. Look at how better you’re doing. Get out of the rush and mindset of judging your path, your timing, and where you find yourself. You can do something about. It can get better.

The end of anything is the beginning of something greater. If you spend more time acknowledging how precious life is and cherish every moment, you’ll get out of the fears and overthinking of what’s next. It gets better. What’s next is far greater. In every moment you’re evolving. Sometimes you might experience challenges that feel like a part of you is coming to an end, but it’s needed for your growth. You’re evolving spiritually. You’re awakening. You’re realizing so much about yourself, who you really are, and what you deserve.

In that transformation phase it can feel heavy or even uncomfortable. Face the unknown. Face the uncertainties. All that means is that you’re changing in a deep way. Your soul wants this new beginning. Don’t be afraid.

Release the need to control everything. Change doesn’t mean an end. It means a new experience, a rebirth, a rise and new things to learn. For once feel a moment of letting go of all control. Breathe. You don’t have to fully understand why and when. How and the timing. You just need to allow and believe. Dream and imagine. Trust and pray. Be grateful for who you are. Give yourself credit because you are truly strong. Your past shows that. Nothing can break you. Life gets better from here.

Affirm I FEEL SO GRATEFUL to welcome all this energy into your life. ✨

[Zach Homol @zachhomol_]

You simply don’t want it enough
There is no other excuses
Own that.

If you can… you give yourself the power back
No more excuses can be made