Don’t Kick the Habit of You
The Problem is . . . Old-School Thinking
Greater-later mindsets enjoy a homecourt advantage because father-the-future software is schooled into the young when they are too green to run, to resist, or to fight back. When babies learn to crawl, they are taught to chase dreams. Friendly fire blasts that if newbies don't have a goal, how will they know where to go? Sadly, when one direction is right, other roads, paths, or processes are wrong, negative, or, to put it politely, less right. Alas, old-school thinking is only happy when it kicks the habit of you.
The Cure . . . Unthink Old Thinking
Old-school goal setting begins with a conclusion in mind. Subscribers to tunnel vision manipulate the now by using James Clear's Atomic Habits to bend the means to trend that perfect end. Old-fashioned success stories brag that when life turned to fudge, they refused to budge. They refused to change recipes. They refused to read the room. Dreamers dream a big dream and refuse to rest until they trigger happiness.
The mindset trap of using happiness as a reward for good behavior is the crux of the world's prejudice, unhappiness, and loneliness. Father-the-future mindsets admit that happiness is the prize. But later-greater mindsets confess that without an endgame, there is no way to trigger that satisfaction. In a remix, life is a survival series of pay-per-view events.
Sadly, human sacrifice and inhuman hardship are opportunities to cull the herd, winnow out minnows, and separate the 1% from the 99. Unhappiness purposes party planners to regift the present into a future worthy of attendance. Drama, trauma, and head games are socially acceptable behaviors because trouble opens gateways of opportunity for wannabes to be more than they are. Trouble motivates the troubled to leave their comfort zones, think outside the box, and force the expansion of their horizons. In a remix, no pain – no gain.
Laws of attraction preach that if you dream it, it shall be, aka "I think; therefore, I am." Conversely, lockstep mindsets teach that you don't have to attract the brand habits you habit, aka "I am; therefore, I think." Lockstep mindsets invest in the now to open your present. In a remix, deeds over dreams.
The Benefits are . . . Homemade Happiness
The proactive promise that later is greater justifies using today as a steppingstone to regifted reality. Sadly, mental masturbation makes later feel greater by unfriending and kicking the habit of you. Party planners regift their present. When the present is bent to reverse engineer a make-believe endgame, time is tainted. In a remix, when today becomes a mere means to a supersized end, the unopened present is mangled to clone a thought bubble, a figment of imagination, fake news.
Old-school gatekeepers argue that earthlings are short puzzle pieces and need a tall dream to complete them. Sadly, this less-than-whole thinking means wannabes don't take responsibility for their deeds because their doings serve a greater purpose. In a remix, deaf ears don't hear or heed those not in the know because . . . haters don't know. Laws of attraction arrest foreign notions.
Lockstep mindsets don't create the future. Lockstep thinking habits and grows the usual you to audition the future. Why audition? Because as you pay yourself forward old thinking may get remixed to include new ideas, fresh air, and aha moments.
Happiness 4 Beginners
Habit brand habits instead of supersizing your brand to thought bubble a daydream. Once habits turnkey – are available for everyday use – provide for their future by building a wheelhouse that empowers blueprints to pay them forward. User-friendly blueprints enable familiar patterns that practice and preserve core behaviors. Your core – your brand – is not manifested after endless suffering 4 your sanity, nor is happiness a reward for enduring a survival series of pay-per-view events. Social activist Pat Benatar said it best, "You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh."
Pound-the-flesh mindsets believe they must kick their usual habits to bend the now and manifest the corner they painted themselves into. Lockstep roll-with-what-you-know mindsets believe you're not a dog, so don't be dogmatic! In a remix, stop infecting the present with Atomic Habits. In another remix, stop training for treats. You are the sum of your life experiences and DNA. Your past gifts the present and empowers you to make an original impression on the world.
I am; therefore, I think.
