How to Make Better Decisions and Feel Good About Them

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We all have decisions we make on a daily basis.

Do I go to Starbucks or Peete’s?

Should I wear the blue shirt or the green shirt?

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What about big decisions?

I Hate My Job! How to Survive Your Workday While You Look for a New Job

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As you drive to work you wonder, “How am I going to get through today?”

You hate your job but right now it’s the only thing standing between you and the homeless shelter downtown.

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You park your car, turn off the ignition and you begin to feel the zest for life being slowly drained from your inner being. Like bathwater after you pull the plug from the drain.

Sound familiar?

The Secret to Finding Happiness

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You think about it all the time.

If you had it, you know you’d be a happy and well adjusted person.

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You just know you’ll be happy when…

You get that job, find that spouse, have a child, get that car, that purse, fill in the blank.

How to Get Rid of That Job You Hate Once and For All

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You did all the right things.

You went to school, got a job with a good company, and set yourself on a career path your parents would be proud of.

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Or maybe you just took the first job you could find because those student loans were coming due.

Either way, you took a job and now you hate it.

You wonder how this happened. How did you end up doing something every day that sucks the zest for life out of you?

The problem is you don’t know what to do. You don’t know what else you want to do. Even if you did know, you don’t know how to get there.

The good news is there is hope.

3 Reasons Why You Should Do Something You’re Scared To Do

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The other day I stepped into an ice cold shower. On purpose. Why?

I had just finished reading The Flinch by Julien Smith.

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The Flinch is a book about doing things you’re scared of doing to get what you want in life. This book reminded me that sometimes avoiding pain can be costly.