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The Best Ways to Not Sweat the Small Stuff – Part II

by Stephen Mills August 23, 2009

This is the second article in a series of the best ways I’ve found to not sweat the small stuff and being happy with whatever I’ve got. Here are the others:

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The Best Ways To Not Sweat The Small Stuff – Part I

by Stephen Mills August 22, 2009

If you can truly absorb and practice a mindset that doesn’t sweat the small stuff, you can take a huge step forward toward a life of happiness and peaceful well-being. Adopting this mindset has made a world of difference in my life.

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Accepting What Is Does Not Mean Giving Up

by Stephen Mills August 18, 2009

You can be thankful for the fact that you have a job. You can be doing an extraordinary job at whatever it is you do. You can live in the moment while realizing that each moment is a step to the next moment. You can maintain perspective and even consider yourself lucky that you are better off than most.

You can do all of this while at the same time looking to improve yourself and grow in every way you can. You can strive to live each day more than you lived the last while being happy and at peace with what is during each of those days. You can be totally happy now and at the same time strive towards more dreams in your future.

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Paying the Price to Get Out

by Stephen Mills August 8, 2009

Everything you do has a price. Everything you don’t do has a price. There is no free lunch despite the fact that many in our modern world think there so. You pay a price to change and you pay a price to maintain the status quo. The price you pay may be in the form of money, time, stress, health, a confrontation, loss of friendship, loss of material things, or anything else for which you have value.

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Let’s Get Some Perspective

by Stephen Mills July 21, 2009

We are immobilized by the small stuff. Our lives are one drama after another. Everything is an emergency. We actually convince ourselves that this stuff is important and matters, but in reality the problems are coming from inside of us and not being dictated by external reality. The way we react to our situations is critical to whether we improve it or not. Instead of reacting to these situations, we need to develop a perspective that reminds us that these situations are not really that bad, important, critical, or whatever.

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Top 99 Personal Development Principles from the Greatest Gurus of All Time

by Stephen Mills July 19, 2009

I read my first personal-development book over 30 years ago. Since that time I’ve read hundreds more. I bet I’ve read 10,000 blog articles in the last few years. This article contains the top 99 principles from the greatest personal-development gurus in the world. These are the ideas I felt worthy of being passed on to you. These are the life-changing ideas you can’t live without. This is a lifetime of collected guru wisdom distilled into a single blog article.

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Edit Your Life

by Stephen Mills July 17, 2009

One of the problems with editing your life and cutting things out, is that it is so easy to rationalize and justify all your current actions. They must be necessary right? We couldn’t possibly stop doing something because the world would then come to an end. Somebody is going to shriek in fear at your selfishness; the selfishness you show by refusing to cater to their selfishness any longer.

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Positive vs Negative Decisions

by Stephen Mills July 7, 2009

I think a very strong indication of where you are at in your life, growth, and well-being has to do with whether you are primarily making positive or negative decisions. We humans will move away from and avoid pain and we will move towards and seek pleasure. That’s the way we work. You might decide [...]

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Contentment

by Stephen Mills July 5, 2009

Being happy with what you have, while at the same time striving to be better or make things better is, I think, at the heart of being content.

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More About Living in the Now

by Stephen Mills July 2, 2009

Maybe you are being taken advantage of, maybe the activity you are engaged in is tedious, maybe someone close to you is dishonest, irritating, or unconscious, but all of that is irrelevant. The fact is that your are resisting what is. You are making the present moment into an enemy. You are creating unhappiness, conflict between the inner and outer. –Eckhart Tolle

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