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“Brian, I can't tell you enough how your notes have encouraged me. In many ways they are exactly what I have needed to here. My husband began listening many months ago but I refused. Although we have taken our kids on a 1 1/2 trip and our currently living and teaching English in China, you'd think I would be a very self-actualized, confident person. However, this is not the case. I daily hike up a local mountain and listen to one of your notes. It has drastically improved my daily life as well as help me focus on where I go from here. What do you do when your living your dreams at 40? Time to refocus.
Thanks for your commitment to this project, and as long as you keep writing I'll keep listening!
Best wishes for you!”
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"Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence. Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances." ~ Martin Seligman
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