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Motivation Tips That Will Change Your Life Most Often
Happiness and motivation are powerful, yet tricky beasts. Sometimes they are easy, and you find yourself wrapped up in a whirlwind of excitement. Other times, it is nearly impossible to figure out how to live with these motivation tips, and you’re trapped in a death spiral of procrastination.
Attitude is everything
10% of your life consists of things you willed or brought about. Don’t sweat that small stuff. 90% is all that you cannot control, the thing that just happens to you. How will you deal with this stuff? How will you react? What will you learn? The key to these questions is attitude.
That’s great news, in a way.No matter your level of formal education, no matter how far you think you got in your life with your career or relationships.
None of these things (the 10%, remember?) matter if you have not fostered the three most important attitudes. Both can be infinitely scaled. Their power is limitless if you learn how to attend to them.
First is gratitude, the attitude directed towards appreciating anything and anyone. The ability to assign a value to something that others overlook. The dark, bottomless wellspring of being thankful for your health, your family, your job, anything. This is the secret to real richness. It never runs…