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Why Happiness Is So Elusive…And How To Embrace It

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Reading Time: 6 minutes June 28, 2019 By T. Harv Eker 1 Comment Do you believe your happiness is a choice? Consider this carefully, because how you answer determines your potential for a happy life. And the key part of the question is not the “happiness”. It’s the belief. If you want to be happy, you have to believe it’s a choice for you. Why? Because believing it’s a choice supports being happy. Beliefs are not true or false or right or wrong. But they are either supportive or unsupportive of what you want. If you can understand this, then you don’t have to take beliefs so seriously– whether they’re your own or someone else’s. You can CHOOSE what to believe. And when you do, you have POWER. Choice puts you at the steering wheel of your life. If you’re not at the steering wheel, where are you? You’re in the back seat. You’re in the side seat. Maybe you’re in the freakin’ trunk! If you want to be in charge and empowered, then you need to choose your beliefs carefully. And if you wa

Amy Cuddy Quotes

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Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it. Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel. The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you if you're not paying attention. Your body's going to go with the self-doubt and make you feel worse, so by making the adjustments - pulling your shoulders back, standing up straight, walking in a more sort of expansive way - all sorts of little things will help pull you out of that self-doubt. When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are. Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes. Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally lo

Going it Alone - or - Joining a Tribe

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Traders are notoriously self-reliant and fiercely independent. Going it alone and Doing it Myself (DIM) is often part of the culture. Traders also know that trading intimately reflects their moods, feelings and inner natures - and that they can improve their trading by working on themselves. The Trading Tribe holds that such inner work, involving the interplay of the ego and the subconscious, is, ironically, essentially impossible on your own, yet rather natural in a group or tribe. The Trading Tribe realizes that deep down, we are not separate; we are interdependent and interconnected. This realization collapses the boundary between spirit and matter, between the inner and the outer, between the self in here and the world out there - and facilitates self-actualization. Structure of The Mind (A Fred-ian Model) Fred - Controls our Actions, Instinctively Information enters the mind through the senses and flows to Fred. Fred is the part of the mind some call the subconscious