Monday Motivation 6/26/23
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I almost always talk to you about different ways to add positivity to your life. We’ve worked on building routines, reaching out to friends and family, and creating our vision. (Speaking of vision, how did that weekend challenge go for all of you? Did you make a movie in your head? Tell me on Twitter.)
I love hearing from all of you about how being a part of this village adds to your life and how it’s a positive corner of the internet, which many of you tell me can be very negative. So this week, we are going to work on subtracting. We’re going to delete some negativity from our lives.
No matter what, we are all going to have moments when we get angry. A lot of those times we can’t avoid — none of us can get out of being stuck in traffic. But there are places where we have the choice to add anger into our lives, so that’s what we will focus on this week.
I’ve told you that I have a rule when watching the news. If I get mad, I ask myself, “Can I do anything about this?” And if the answer is yes, like when hospitals didn’t have PPE or veterans didn’t have housing, then I do something. If the answer is no, which is often the case, then I try to turn off my anger. It’s a waste.
But what if I told you we can stop negativity before it starts? I’ve found that I have a lot less negativity in my life by not watching certain shows or checking certain websites for news. They make money from my anger. They weren’t trying to inform me; they were trying to get me fired up.
As you go through this week, I want you to do something simple. Look for those moments when you are scrolling social media or watching the news, and you feel yourself getting angry. Right now, I want you to notice it and write down what you were watching or what social media account made your face get hot or your hair stand up. I think that just realizing you’re getting angry will make you less negative.
I bet you can guess what the weekend challenge will be. But until then, I want you to pay attention and write down all the sources of negativity you find.
Here’s to a more positive week.
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1 年I created a pitch deck for my fitness equipment company start up, and it just was ignored by the person who requested it. Very aggravating. But I keep pushing forward and realize that rejection is part of success. In fact it’s a requirement. So thank you to the people who rejected me! It has made me stronger! I need the resistance!
Poet and Seller | Creative Writing, Entrepreneurship
1 年Dear Arnold. My english is not the best, but ill try to explain my thoughts at my very best. We started an NGO, to protect, and maintain a local river called Klátovské rameno in 2019, which is a national nature reserve, and which is going to disappear due to state management problems, byrocracy, climate change and nonsense legislation in my country. In october of 2021 I wrote to You an email, how hard is to win anything here, when You dont have the money, to bribe the local management. That day, we were waiting for acceptance of a project, which is donated by Norway grants and which name is Status improvement of wetland of Klátovské rameno NNR located in SKUEV0075. I dont know, if You′ve actually read that mail, but as a wonder, we got the acceptance of the project by state ministry of environment the very same day. Now the project has a website www.mokradeklatovske.sk , which taken to start nearly 2 years. This shows, how slowly it evaluates towards a success, but we still didnt give up the chance to win. I write this to You, to know, how many fields of life your motivation helps. Thank You for support, even if only by thoughts of power of persistance. Wish to You and your team all the best!