A Manifesto by Trevor McKendrick (howitactuallyworks.com)
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Focus your time & attention on the things you can influence.
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Do something today instead of daydreaming about tomorrow.
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See problems as opportunities to learn, grow, and give meaning to our lives.
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Keep promises to yourself, no matter how small. Tell yourself you’ll go on a walk, and then do it. Promise to call a friend, and then do it. Commit to your boss you’ll send that email, and then do it.
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Have confidence you’ll be able to figure out how to fix that thing that just broke.
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Choose carefully the stories you tell yourself about who you are and what you’re capable of.
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Move fast. Most decisions can be reversed later.
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Be you. Not because you’re entitled to be heard but because there is some unique thing you have to offer, if you can find it.
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Believe we can think, and build, and create ourselves out of any problem.
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Internalize that the pie is not fixed, that life is not zero sum.
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Focus on why something could work instead of why it won’t.
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See yourself as part of the solution, not a victim of the problem.
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Pay for the drive thru order of the car behind you.
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Recognize problems as temporary and specific, not permanent and expansive.
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Believe problems are solvable. Maybe not right away, probably not easily, but that it can be done.