100 quiet ways to ruin your life:
1 - Hit snooze
2 - Skip prayer
3 - Skip breakfast
4 - Never floss
5 - Snap at your spouse
6 - Over-caffeinate
7 - Under-hydrate
8 - Scroll socials
9 - Ignore your kids
10 - Leave late
11 - Skip the gym
12 - Numb stress
13 - Smoke daily
14 - Drink nightly
15 - Ignore the doctor
16 - Ignore your posture
17 - Ignore your bank account
18 - Doordash daily
19 - Drink your calories
20 - Play the lottery
21 - Rely on willpower
22 - Confuse loud with right
23 - Confuse title with worth
24 - Confuse comfort with peace
25 - Plan instead of start
26 - Do the bare minimum
27 - Blame your parents
28 - Blame the economy
29 - Blame your education
30 - Quit on yourself
31 - Half listen
32 - Half respond
33 - Stop dating your spouse
34 - Save hard conversations
35 - Become complacent
36 - Win every argument
37 - Call TV "quality time"
38 - Check email at dinner
39 - Hide money problems
40 - Hold resentment
41 - Time the market
42 - Buy an IUL
43 - Buy memecoins
44 - Buy whole life insurance
45 - Ignore your HSA
46 - Ignore your 401k
47 - Ignore your Roth IRA
48 - Never set up a will
49 - Never shop insurance
50 - Never invest in yourself
51 - Worship money
52 - Worship power
53 - Worship success
54 - Buy designer
55 - Pay minimums
56 - Inflate lifestyle with income
57 - Loan money you need back
58 - Take fitness advice from fat people
59 - Take money advice from broke people
60 - Take marriage advice from single people
61 - Ignore your credit score
62 - Get a payday loan
63 - Lease a car
64 - Budget in your head
65 - Shop when bored
66 - Buy luxury
67 - Cash out your 401k
68 - Buy now, pay later
69 - Tap home equity
70 - Pay sticker price
71 - Obsess over appearance
72 - Compare life to social media
73 - Hate life now to enjoy it later
74 - Postpone your dreams
75 - Project your stress
76 - Avoid your thoughts
77 - Forget your values
78 - Live a default life
79 - Outsource identity
80 - Disappoint yourself
81 - Stop being curious
82 - Stop having opinions
83 - Stop calling your parents
84 - Settle for survival
85 - Get tired of trying
86 - Tell yourself it's the job
87 - Tell yourself it's the kids
88 - Tell yourself it's the season
89 - Sleepwalk through life
90 - Lose your sense of humor
91 - Wait until tomorrow
92 - Wait until next week
93 - Wait until next year
94 - Assume you have time
95 - Become a burden
96 - Pass down your stress
97 - Bury your dreams
98 - Outlive your purpose
99 - Die before you live
100 - Scroll without following @Budgetdog_
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Throw the dog a bone.
God wants to heal us and help us move forward. He will fill in the gaps left by people. Through His promises, we can be reassured of all those things we wish others would have said or done. His love for us is deep, unwavering, and certain.
Today:
1. Look for the positives
2. Believe in yourself & others
3. Be thankful
4. Learn, improve, grow
5. Encourage someone
6. Replace HAVE TO with GET TO
7. Focus on Solutions
8. Trust in positive intentions
9. Let go of things you can’t control
10. Do your best!
In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering.
In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day.
Adaptability is the way of consistency.
NOT AN ACCIDENT, but if you're seeing this on APRIL 16th, the winning era begins for you. Relationships. Health. Wealth. Everythiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing gets better from here. You're so lucky.
Jim Rohn's 7 attitude diseases that silently destroy success:
"Attitude diseases are deadly. They'll destroy all the good things you start. I'm a pro on these because I've had them all."
1. Indifference.
"The shrug of the shoulder. The guy's not even concerned. He's just drifting. There's one problem with drift: you cannot drift to the top of the mountain. Here's the key to the good life: Learn to put everything you've got into everything you do. The delusion is, 'If I had a better job, I'd really pour it on.' Wherever you are, pour it on."
2. Indecision.
"Mental paralysis. The guy can't make up his mind. He says, 'What if I get off on the wrong side?' Listen, after a while, it doesn't matter. Just get off. Any side will do. The ones that turn out to be wrong give you better experience to make better decisions. Don't see how many decisions you can get out of, see how many you can get into. That's where the adventure is."
3. Doubt.
"One of the worst is self-doubt. The guy doubts himself. Doubts if it'll last. Doubts if he can do that well. Doubts if he can make that much. A chronic, excellent self-doubter. You can imagine what damage that does to your future. Turn this coin over and become a believer. The understanding of self-worth is the beginning of progress."
4. Worry.
"Worry causes health problems, social problems, personal problems, family problems. Worry long enough, it'll drop you to your knees. I used to be known as a super worrier. Not a super warrior, a super worrier. My family wished I'd have been a warrior. It took me almost one year to kick the worry habit. It was one of the toughest years I ever spent. But I discovered you could live the most incredible life free of worry. Not free of challenge, not free of difficulty, free of worry."
5. Overcaution.
"Some people never will have much. They're too cautious. This is the timid approach to life. I used to say, 'What if this happens?' It's called the language of the poor. Then I discovered it's all risky. The minute you were born, it got risky. If you think trying is risky, wait till they hand you the bill for not trying. Getting married is risky. Having children is risky. Going into business is risky. I'll tell you how risky life is; you're not going to get out alive. Don't ask for security. Ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe in the corner."
6. Pessimism.
"The deadly disease of always looking on the bad side. The poor pessimist doesn't try to figure out what's right; he tries to figure out what's wrong. He doesn't look for virtue; he looks for faults. And when he finds them, he's delighted. How ugly. To the pessimist, the glass is always half empty. To the optimist, it's half full. Our lives are mostly affected by the way we think things are, not the way they are."
Jim shares what changed his thinking:
"I used to start the day reading the morning newspaper. I'd load up on wars and riots and murders and stabbings and killings. I'd even read the back pages. I seem to like that stuff for some weird reason. Then I'd start the day. You can imagine the kind of days I used to have. Mr. Shoaff gave me one of the greatest phrases: 'Jim, every day, stand guard at the door of your mind.' Don't let anybody just dump anything they want into your mental factory because you've got to live with the results."
7. Complaining.
"Complaining, crying, whining, griping. Spend five minutes complaining and you have wasted five, and you may have begun what's known as economic cancer of the bone. Surely they will soon haul you off into a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret."
The goal of the Gospel is not to affirm you, celebrate you, or empower you to do whatever you want.
The goal of the Gospel is to rescue you, transform you, and empower you to do whatever God says.