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#362 Not making plans

November 29, 2019October 3, 2019 Neil Pasricha

Life’s too short to make plans all the time. Just do what you want and enjoy it.

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My new book is called You Are Awesome.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ And what will I do if this book fails?⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ Well… on to the next thing.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ Don’t get me wrong. I want the book to be a huge success! I want for that. I wish for that! ⠀⁣⁣ ⁣ But I can’t determine that.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ All I get to do is whatever I do right now and whatever I do next.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ And that’s the point.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ I have to keep going with my next book, my next talk, my next project, my next whatever, whether this one is a hit or a flop. ⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣ ⁣⁣ You need to keep going, too.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ What do I know about getting to awesome? ⠀⁣⁣ One thing I know is we need to stop looking at successful people as if we’re looking at products of success. At success after success. Because you know what we’re really looking at? People who are just really good at moving through failures. Moving through failures is the real success.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ Building resilience is the real success.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ Failures and the losses are part of the process for anyone who is willing to try.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ So what’s the goal?⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ Lose more to win more.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ And lead the Failure Parade.⠀⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣ #YouAreAwesomeBook
Some fascinating research published in Science mag Some fascinating research published in Science magazine by the neuroscientists Stefanie Brassen and her colleagues backs up how healing it can be to reveal. Their study, titled “Don’t Look Back in Anger!: Responsiveness to Missed Chances in Successful and Nonsuccessful Aging,” shows that minimizing regrets as we age creates greater contentment and happiness. The research also shows that holding on to regrets causes us to take more aggressive and risky actions in the future. So the healthiest and happiest people are aware of regrets they harbor and then choose to let them go.⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ But how?⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ Want to know how to do this?⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ Here’s the two-minute morning practice.⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ Every morning I grab an index card or a journal and write these three prompts: ⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ I will let go of …⠀⁣⁣⁣ I am grateful for …⠀⁣⁣⁣ I will focus on … ⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ It takes only two minutes to do, and the difference in my life has been both immediate and incredible. ⠀⁣⁣⁣ Completing three simple sentences helps me “win the morning,” which helps me start to “win the day.” ⠀⁣⁣⁣ We’re all awake for about 1000 minutes a day. That’s it! So isn’t it worth taking two of those minutes to help the other 998 be as good as possible? ⠀⁣⁣⁣ ⠀⁣⁣⁣ #YouAreAwesomeBook #TwoMinuteMornings
Please welcome the incredible @RichRoll to the 3 B Please welcome the incredible @RichRoll to the 3 Books podcast! ⠀ ⠀ What are some tools that help you be fully present and available?⠀ ⠀ How far should you lean into your art?⠀ ⠀ How do you learn to wrestle and overcome deep addictions?⠀ ⠀ How do you decide which once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to do?⠀ ⠀ Find out in Chapter 45 of 3 Books with @richroll accomplished vegan ultra-endurance athlete, wellness advocate, bestselling author of FINDING ULTRA and host of the Rich Roll Podcast. A former entertainment attorney turned full-time wellness & plant-based nutrition advocate, popular public speaker, husband, father of 4 and inspiration to people worldwide as a transformative example of courageous and healthy living. ⠀ ⠀ Listen here / link in bio: https://buff.ly/37RAFzM
Sounds snappy.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ But how? How can we re Sounds snappy.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ But how? How can we really do that? Right as we’re failing, as we’re feeling it, as we’re looking up at the light disappearing above us, how? What is the tool we can use to try to put this theory into practice?⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Well, it comes down to adding one word to our vocabulary.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ And that is the word “yet.”⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ “Yet” is the magic word to add to any sentence that we begin with “I can’t,” “I’m not,” or “I don’t.”⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Wait! Yuck! Who talks like this? Who is that negative? Well, we all do this. We do! We declare things about ourselves to ourselves. We issue proclamations!⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Pitch gets rejected? “I’m not creative.”⠀⁣ Cut from the team? “I’m not good at sports.”⠀⁣ Bad blood test from the lab? “I don’t take care of myself.”⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ And it’s not only when we’re failing, either.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Our negative talk is even more insidious when we’re just moving through the motions. Just walking down the path. Painting in the paint-by-numbers. Hopscotching the chalky boxes.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ We talk like this. And every time we do, we’re inserting periods at the ends of sentences that we might have kept going.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ It’s much harder to keep the taps on. It’s harder to add a “yet” to the end of a self-judgment.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ How does the magic word look in practice?⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ “I’m not creative …yet.”⠀⁣ “I’m not good at sports ...yet.”⠀⁣ “I don’t take care of myself ... yet.”⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ When we gain the courage to add a “yet” to statements about ourselves, we leave our options open. Adding the word “yet” is empowering. It wedges a little question mark into the negative certainty we hold on to so fiercely in our minds. ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ It leaves the door open.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ It adds a “To be continued …”⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ So when you feel like you’re failing don’t just end the sentence.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Add a dot-dot-dot instead ...⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ #YouAreAwesomeBook
I learned a secret from @gretchenrubin ten years a I learned a secret from @gretchenrubin ten years ago.⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ She told me that she asks her publisher for branded bookplates for her books. ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ I had never heard of a bookplate but turns out it’s a small square sticker that the author can sign, give to the reader, and then the reader sticks it inside the book and - voila! - it’s an autographed copy. ⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ That’s why for the past ten years whenever somebody across the universe has told me they bought a book and would really like it signed I just drop a non-personalized bookplate in the mail. My publisher covers the bookplate, I sign a pile of them once a month or so, and my lovely assistant Erin mails them out. (Yes, we cover the shipping anywhere in the world.)⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Would you like one? We have them branded to The Book of Awesome, The Happiness Equation, and You Are Awesome (pictured)⠀⁣ ⠀⁣ Just email erin@globalhappiness.org with which books you bought, how many, and your address … and they shall arrive!
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