Benjamin Hardy

When you’re caught in a self-defeating cycle, it can feel impossible to get out. Quite disturbingly, you begin to believe the suffocation of negativity is “normal.”

Rather than being reactive to what’s going on around us, happy people take control of their lives and emotions. If you are unhappy with your life, who or what else can you blame than yourself?

You can never be afraid to truly, in all the zeal and conviction you can muster, share the truth desperately seeking to come out of you.

Put most simply, what stands in nearest proximity to you has enormous implications.

The first step of evolution is to stop desiring the things that are stopping you from evolving.

But you need to be uncomfortable enough with your current situation to stop consuming and wasting your time. To focus on learning and creating rather than being entertained and distracted.

Rather than seeing their identity as flexible and malleable, most people believe that “this is just the way I am,” and see their identity as rigid.

It’s common practice for many of the world’s most successful people to intentionally direct the workings of their subconscious mind while they’re sleeping. How?

Awareness is the first step. What are you doing right now? Be there, not somewhere else.

It’s easy to tell people about your ambitions. It’s easy to create vision boards and write down your goals. It’s easy to stand in front of a mirror and declare affirmations. And that’s where most people stop.

The more successful you become, the less you can justify low quality. The more focused you must become. The more consistently your daily behaviors must be high quality — and increasingly higher quality.

Wealth, optimal health, incredible relationships, deep spiritual maturity are all available to you. But you have to pay the price to have these things.

Are you unstoppable? By the end of this article you will be.

If “success” is your primary objective, you probably won’t get it. Chasing success is like chasing happiness. You can’t pursue it directly.

Everything in your life is a gift. Being alive in the first place is a ridiculous and rare privilege.

I used to exercise first thing in the morning. Not anymore. I’ve found that exercising first thing in the morning actually sucks my energy, leaving me with less than I started.

If you’re serious about the changes you want to make, willpower won’t be enough. Quite the opposite. Willpower is what’s holding you back.

At each new stage (or shell) in your journey, you will feel like a child. You’ll be required to learn and do new things. You’ll relearn past lessons but from new angles and with new meanings.