Love Life: How to raise your standards, find your person and live happily (no matter what)

And becoming the magic often ends up being the indirect way we get the results we sought in the first place.

When we’re constantly mourning what we’re not getting in life, being anxious or panicked over the things we can’t change, or completely preoccupied with trying to manage our pain, we put out an

energy that pushes people away.

John Kay argues in his book Obliquity, that our goals in life are best achieved indirectly.

Thank you to my advisor, friend, and CEO Dan Hyde.

Did we ever have a clean slate? We started out with the mess our parents handed down to us, some of which we’ll surely pass on, nearly unchanged, to the next generation.

we can act as if we chose them by figuring out what unique benefits they are giving

you didn’t have your biggest problem in your life right now, there’s no guarantee you wouldn’t have an equally difficult or even worse problem in another area. Everyone struggles.

Unhappy people say yes to people who make them unhappy because they think they or their life is worthless without them.