It just takes enough grit
If you are like a lot of others, you sometimes set goals and then don't achieve them. Perhaps your resolve wasn't really there in the first place and you made your goals lightly. Or perhaps like many others when you realized the sacrifice necessary to accomplish your goal, you lacked…
Living someone else's life
When we are kids, expectations get put upon us. When we get married that can happen too. Some of us wind up living a life we didn't choose. It takes guts to declare it's not for us and to walk away. Knowing what you do want and where you…
Fixing your spouse
Do I have your attention? (We talk about nearly everything on Think Daily!) Fixing your spouse? It's not going to happen, and trying is not going to make for a happy relationship. Consider this - you are the problem. Your failure to accept them unconditionally is the problem. The gap…
Find something you would die for…
We've all seen movies where two people are so in love that one would die for another. That's nice and all, and makes for a great movie. But a better way to go is to LIVE for the other person. In life you can experience, and care for, and grow…
Hiding in plain sight
Are the "secrets of success" closely guarded, made only available to the privileged? Not at all. In fact they are in plain view of everyone. That they are deceivingly simple makes them easy to miss or ignore. What do you already know about that you need to start doing or…
Easy to do, and easy not to do.
Living a successful life is not the result of 90 years of learning ten thousand things and struggling mightily with them. It's finding and doing a handful of easy and important things as a habit each day, and letting the results compound. Often these easy things are in the "everybody…
"I had a great day", or…
"I wasted my day". We've all had days where we felt one way or the other. Every action we take moves us farther away or closer to what we were meant to be. Your happiness is the indicator.
"Confirmation Bias"
This is when you attach more significance to information that confirms your preconceptions. Consider that you are seeing in the world what you believe you'd find. To see something better, you have to believe it's there first.
Nature is not human hearted
Humanity is part of the natural world on earth, but cannot defy its laws. Chemistry, geology, weather, physics, and cause and effect of the sciences will not change because we feel good or bad about how they affect our personal lives, or how intensely we feel these emotions. We must…
Free markets and trade solves a lot of problems
We want to do good in the world and reduce human suffering; two problems we want to eradicate most around the world are poverty and war. The best way to do this is by working to (and help others who are working to) establish economic liberty, the rule of law,…
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In a world full of countless distractions, discipline is arguably the most difficult personal trait to maintain. But its benefits are so significant that it’s always worth the effort.