Idk who needs to hear this, but you can just change your life. You can move to a new area. You can meet new people. You can make different decisions. You can stop being lazy. You can start putting yourself out there. You can get comfortable with failure. Comfortable with growth. You can start to see yourself differently You can tell yourself a different story about who you are in the world. You can do it today. Right now. In this moment. You can just be a new person. You’re under no obligation to be the person you were 10 minutes ago. You can have a new life.

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Humans fear change. Change is inevitable and generally leads to new and better things. Take a step, then another, then another. It really is just that easy.
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₿ujuX 1 year ago
I don't know who needs to here this but he is right.
I just posted this: ‘The measure of a person is what he does with power.’ Now I feel like it sounds like something from LinkedIn 😅.
This is why I think bringing attention to “mental health” is bullshit, it’s akin to beating the drum on racism, your mental health is a choice in the moment
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Rand 1 year ago
Bless U & yours HODL/*
talking to a walmart associate, if only had a $2 pay increase things would be easier, do think Trump gonna make things better? I told him, only way out of your situation is to start a small biz, window washing, doggie do pickup anything. the only one getting you out of this situation is you and Jesus.
Bud, I live there……people are great, but Dear Lord is our government wretched
Just fucking do it even if it hurts. Especially if it hurts.
I’ve come to really appreciate your posts. I used to think you were a bit of a self righteous asshole, but you’re definitely an ethical asshole. We need ethical assholes to keep the unethical assholes at bay. And I also think we have more in common than I initially thought. Anywho, have a good evening!
If something is making you unhappy, change it. It’s a simple statement that has guided me for many years. And it’s the advice I’ve given to many struggling friends along the way. Hard to do in practice. But easy enough to identify and make a plan for. Identify the source of unhappiness and do whatever the fuck it takes to make it right.
HODL, I feel I have good vision but I am terrible at execution. Bitcoin has been perfect, as I don’t need to do anything other than study and stack sats. I do have aspirations of starting a business though, should I look to hire people to help build my vision or do I need to stop being a bitch and learn to execute better? Do I focus on my strengths or do I attack my weaknesses?
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MuyMaestro 1 year ago
Go on an adventure....and don't be a pussy!
Been wanting to learn to code and get into software development. Always keep doubting myself to learn it but I’m starting to change that mindset.
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R 1 year ago
You and Jesus is the combo that matters 👍🏻
Go for it friend. Below are two embroideries. One was when I first began and the other is after years … it’s worth it if you love it. Hugs 🫂
Always focus on your strengths. I have many many weaknesses, but I don’t spend any time ruminating on them. I just work around them. My strengths are effortless and come natural to me. I suspect it is much the same for you. Also always remember that ideas are worth nothing and execution is worth everything. Figure out how you can execute using your strengths. An expression I am very fond of and have thought about many times over the years is “do what you can, where you are, with what you have available to you” Basically good execution is about doing the realistic things in front of you to the best of your ability. Not about reaching some lofty height. Watch Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron etc… every single moment of the game is important to them and they go from moment to moment executing each opportunity to the best of their ability.
Why not adopt a more open-individualist outlook? Maybe all we are is just a different manifestation of the same "I" sliding through the present?
"You think that the world is decreed to you from scribes on high. It's not. The world is built by people that get out and build the fucking world. So if you want to do something, just go do it. Get politically active if you want to be politically active. Build a business if you want to build a business. Build a family if you want to build a family. Build an estate if you want to build an estate. Go to Mars if you want to go to Mars. Fucking just go do it. Do what you want to do." - @HODL on @THE Bitcoin Podcast View quoted note →
If you have tried some of the things on this list by @HODL and failed, take this into consideration: - Your conscious mind sees the things around you, obviously. - Not always obvious is that your subconscious mind processes these surroundings, as well. - You consciously make decisions informed powerfully by your subconscious. - Your subconscious is guiding your conscious mind to make decisions based on your environment. - You can use discipline to make a conscious decision that opposes the guidance of the subconscious. - Discipline is like a muscle and it gets tired. - If you intend to change your decisions by opposing your subconscious with your conscious, you will not win. You will get tired. You will fail. You will get tired of failing. - Use your conscious mind to change the environment that feeds your subconscious perceptions. This is the power of new friends, relocation, new job, etc. - The goal in these changes is to build the environment that makes your subconscious guidance align with your conscious decision-making goals. - Create the environment that makes the right decision the easiest decision. This will help you immensely. - The things that you know work against you, be quick to invite them out of your life. - Your emotions will tell you when something is amiss. Those emotional pangs in your core are the communication of your subconscious to your conscious mind. It’s a handy little tool to know when you need to fix something. Usually, when you ask yourself what it is that you need to fix, that is causing the pain, your first thought is the answer. Fix that. Even if that wasn’t it do it again and you will eventually get there with a bunch of things fixed. This realization alone can change your life. Be bold in your changes. You can always readjust if you over shot. Don’t be meek in making changes when your enjoyment of this one life is at stake. Enjoy.
Sometimes you just need to hear someone give you permission to not ask for permission 🥲
I have always hated this kind of "motivational" quotes. They seem like nothing more than 1: the person posting them being dissatisfied with who I am - as if someone else than me should decide that, 2: urging to do more than I'm mentally capable of, to push me into a complete breakdown, 3: prescribing a solution without having any idea about the problem, 4: accusations, 5: believing that all problems come from within, that external factors doesn't affect anyone's situation in life. I probably forgot something, but I guess I can just start remembering too...
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R 1 year ago
Reply guys🙄. Glad you’re in my feed!
Of course you can't - or you wouldn't have made the original post (unless it was for trolling purposes, which I don't think it was). But people are different, and to the point of my reply, people's situations are different. This kind of advice probably works for some people, but not for all. Maybe that's what you meant by "Idk who needs to hear this", but I interpreted it as "all who do not already do this".
Probably more an European point of view. I assume both OP and you are American, even though you have Korean characters in your bio. It's something about many Americans, they seem to, for the first, believe that they are somehow two people and desperately need to change one of them (because who would otherwise be in charge of the changing), and they also seem to have complete blinders on to the fact that both aspects of people and circumstances (some, not all, both cases) cannot be changed. (Even despite you having such aspects in your bio - as an ENTP you can't can't change yourself into an ISFP. If you tried to emulate one, you would not be very convincing, and you would hate every second of it...)
Cultural influence does not preclude your psychological external locus of control, which is a personal choice regardless of your temperament and culture. Having an internal locus of control isn't the same as not being able to distinguish between that which cannot and that which can be changed, which you kind of imply. Healthy and functional people who have an internal locus of control are generally aware of what can and cannot be changed, accept what cannot be changed, and focus on what can be changed relative to their inherent and chosen values. An external locus of control on the other hand precludes a person from being able to perceive the difference between what can and cannot be changed and shifts the blame for their undesired life circumstances outside themselves. As Stephen R. Covey wrote, "When you think the problem is out there, that thought is the problem." When you learn to love reality, you find the power to make your choices regardless of circumstances.
What makes you think I can't discern what can be changed and not? That I point out that external factors exist? That's not even what annoys me the most (even though it's true, in differing amounts and specifics for different people) of such "advice" - it's the no-questions-asked assumption that I should change myself for the person posting it. Essentially "You are not good enough, do as I say". But I suppose you will just answer with something about being annoyed about that saying something about me that I should change, or, now that I wrote that, something else about something else I wrote... What's wrong with letting people be who they are?
You're straw manning and reading your own insecurities into what I wrote. I simply dismantled your flawed logic around your attempted conflation of European, and American culture and internal and external locus of control, and last I checked a man is not his logic which is what I addressed. You're allowed to believe and be and think whatever you want, but whining about getting some pushback in a public forum, which is what's happening, is par for the course, especially when you complain about someone encouraging others, when a healthy and functional man would respond positively, but that's not what you did and I'm calling you on it.
A healthy and functional person has developed appropriate boundaries that enable them to say yes to what's good and no to what's bad. An internal locus of control enables a person to say no to abusive relationships and yes to life enhancing relationships. The person you're describing can't tell the difference between their own problems and other people's problems, and therefore has low quality boundaries and a dysfunctional locus of control and is quite codependent.
Bashing others because they aren't what you want them to be isn't better... And I still believe that the difference between Americans and Europeans - generally, of course not everyone - holds true. You did not dismantle any flawed logic about it, you wrote your belief in the question. And once again twist every argument to me being a bad person. You are nothing but a troll. I will, for the first time, test Nostr's mute function.
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DB 7 months ago
There is no perfect environment... We are all different. Figuring out where you thrive physically and mentally should be a never ending path to walk down
So many need this. So many think they can’t or think they need permission. You can. And you don’t.