Watch What They Do

Tiny Thoughts

Unfair advantages are found in the things that anyone could do, but very few choose to do.

When the gap between where you are and where you want to be is large, focus on the next step. One sentence in the book. One workout. One email. While the ultimate goal helps you navigate, focusing on it keeps you from achieving it.

Patterns of unhappy people:

– Need social approval
– Are reliably unreliable
– Feel sorry for themselves
– Choose comfort over truth
– Refuse to learn from others
– Spend more than they make
– Use chemicals to alter mood
– Make everything about them
– Resent the success of others
– Confuse motion with progress
– Confuse cynicism with intelligence
– Promiscuous with their attention
– Always in love with their first idea
– Are always too smart to look stupid
– Need to learn everything from mistakes
– Build a life that looks better than it feels
– Protect their potential by never testing it
– Stay loyal to decisions that no longer make sense
– Win arguments at the expense of the relationships
– Standards for others and explanations for themselves

Not a good place to be.