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2460: Do You Control Your Life? by James Altucher

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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The Key to Freedom Is Luck

All forms of health are a function of how much you control your own life, divided by how much people control you. When i respond to an angry comment, someone controls me. Anger controls me, then i spend less time being healthy. If i'm in an unhappy relationship, but afraid of the consequences of breaking it, then fear controls me. Coming up with thousands of ideas means having the energy and creativity to brain storm. Energy equals physical plus emotional plus mental plus spiritual health. Diversification means coming up with one thousand ideas and implementing the one or two that seem reasonable. And persistence is a sentence filled with failures, punctuated by the occasional suce s.

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