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Good Intentions Aren’t Enough. (Here’s How to Really Change Your Life)
Most people are well intentioned; they have big dreams and ambitions they want to achieve.
They want to start a podcast, develop a mourning journaling habit, or even just get up earlier.
Yet day after day, they find themselves stuck in the same routines to the remark of, ‘I’ll do it tomorrow.’
You’ve been there. You know it can feel impossible to change your life when momentum is working against you.
It can feel like you're treading upstream and getting nowhere. Said Benjamin P. Hardy,
“Most people’s environment is like a rushing river, going the opposite direction of where they want to go. It takes a lot of willpower to tread upstream. It’s exhausting. Instead, you want your environment to literally be pulling you the direction you want to go.”
Here’s what needs to be understood.
Free Will is Contextual
“Choosing and shaping your environment is at the center of what “free will” really means, because your choice of environment and external influences will…
