Stop complaining:

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Stop complaining.

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Stop sulking.

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Stop pouting.

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Stop it.

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It gets you nowhere.

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Instead, figure out where you are.

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What happened to you?

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What did you do wrong?

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What can you learn?

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Then move on.

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Look forward.

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Look ahead.

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Life doesn’t wait for anyone.

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It moves on.

Either you move with it or you don’t.

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As Bob Iger likes to say, evolve or die.

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The world is not a kind place.

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Are there kind people?

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Absolutely.

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Do your best to find them.

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Keep them around you.

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Do your best to be their friend.

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But the world?

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It isn’t kind.

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It’s brutal.

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It’s relentless.

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It doesn’t care about your feelings.

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It doesn’t care about your struggles.

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It doesn’t care about your difficulties.

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It just wants to know how you can contribute to it.

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What can you provide?

What can you do that no one else can?

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That might take you a while to figure out.

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Potentially decades.

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Or a whole lifetime.

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But that doesn’t mean you should stop searching.

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Doesn’t mean you should stop trying.

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Doesn’t mean you should sit back and accept your fate.

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Get up.

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Go again.

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Stop feeling sorry for yourself.

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Get to work.

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Focus on improvement.

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Focus on progress.

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Focus on mini steps.

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What can you do today that improves where you are?

Whether that’s physically, mentally or spiritually, what small action can you take to move forward?

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Do that again.

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And again.

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And again.

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And even when you don’t want to.

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I’d start with physical fitness.

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Get in shape.

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Focus solely on that.

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Joe Wicks is great for that.

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Look at his stuff on Youtube (here).

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Hundreds of free body weight HIIT workouts.

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Takes you between 20-35 minutes.

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Do one of those workouts 4-5 times a week.

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Do that for 3 months.

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Then watch.

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Don’t judge.

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Don’t get down on yourself.

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Don’t stop.

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Just keep at it.

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Even when it hurts.

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Even when it sucks.

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Pair that with a healthier diet.

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Cut out the pop.

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Cut back on alcohol.

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More water.

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More protein.

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More greens.

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Less sugar.

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Less processed food.

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Even if you can’t do all of that, make small changes.

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Like just drink water instead of pop.

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Watch how quickly your body will change.

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The reason I start with improving your physical fitness is that it’s in your control.

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That’s up to you.

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You can work at it and see the improvements.

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Then start in other areas.

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Start reading.

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Not tweets or articles.

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Books.

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Develop a reading habit.

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I personally would start with some of the self-help books.

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They changed my life.

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Here’s a few I’d recommend.

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Think and Grow Rich.

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Strangest Secret.

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Magic of Thinking Big.

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Four Agreements.

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What Happened to You.

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Atomic Habits.

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Meditations.

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Mindset.

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How to Own Your Mind.

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Start there.

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If you don’t want to read them, listen to their audiobooks.

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Free website to download audiobooks here.

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Download ‘BookPlayer’ to your phone then transfer the mp3 files there.

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Thank me later.

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Do this and you’ll be in a way better spot.

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Will life get easy?

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Will I solve all my problems?

Will everything make sense?

No.

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Life rarely does.

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You will always face unexpected challenges.

That’s life.

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That’s the point.

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It’s not about the challenges but how you handle them.

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Life will throw everything at you and more.

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As Mike Tyson has said, everyone has a plan till you get punched in the mouth.

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You got punched in the mouth.

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Multiple times.

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So what are you going to do about it?

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Sit back and watch let life pass you by?

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Or go live the best life you can?

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The choice is yours.

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To do that, you must first…

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Stop complaining.

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