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Make Better Decisions, Level Up Your Finances, Reclaim Your Time
Mario Peshev
October 15, 2022
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3 Ideas For Better Habits
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Choose Wisely, or Others Will Choose For You
Best-selling author, Greg Mckeown on the intentionality of our choices in life.
“Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”
“We can either make our choices deliberately or allow other people’s agendas to control our lives.”
2
If You’re Not Feeling “Hell Yeah!”, Then Say No
Derek Sivers, entrepreneur and author on how make more room for what excites us most:
“Most of us have lives filled with mediocrity. We said yes to things that we felt half-hearted about.
So we’re too busy to react when opportunities come our way. We miss out on the great because we’re busy with the mediocre.
The solution is to say yes to less.”
“If you’re not feeling “Hell yeah, that would be awesome!” about something, say no.”
3
99% is Hard. 100% is Easy.
Jack Canfield, best-selling author on making daily disciplines easy:
“Successful people adhere to the ‘no exceptions rule’ when it comes to their daily disciplines. Once you make a 100-percent commitment to something, there are no exceptions.”
A 99% commitment to something is very hard, a 100% commitment is easy.
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Brain Food
Today I Learned: Mexico was struck by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake on Sept. 19, 2022 – the third occurrence on this exact date, with reported earthquakes back in 2017 and 1985. (Source)
Science: A study reviewed by the NIH proved that slow, deep breathing reduces one’s heart rate, increases vigor, boosts alpha brain waves, and activates the parasympathetic nervous system. (Source)
Have a productive week,
The Smarter Brain Team
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