It seems so simple to understand that other people have hopes and dreams too. You want to be REALLY happy?  Help them achieve those hopes and dreams.

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Instead of living an off-the-shelf life, where your house looks the same as all the people you are trying in vain to impress, have the courage to listen to your actual preferences, and do the work to be different. Sure, it's less efficient, but it is so much more fulfilling!

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Week #1 of 2025 has arrived. Wow... look at that stretch of empty squares!  So much potential energy waiting to be unleashed on the world!   Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done?   It's a NEW YEAR, and so... a new look to the newsletter!  Let me know what you think, and thanks to Eli, my spectacular executive assistant, for all of her hard work pulling it together.   I know this is a bit strange... getting the Week #1 of 2025 email on 12/29/2024.  But, come Wednesday we will be in the middle of Week #1, 2025.     So, think of these 2 days left in 2024 as a launch ramp. ...

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I am not sure why I hold the belief that the full measure of my enjoyment and enthusiasm is somehow rude, or gauche, or juvenile, or unrefined.

The world is starving for our enthusiasm. 

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Regardless of how bad or good you think your life is, it is true that you are better off than nearly everyone that has ever existed.  You take for granted, every day, things that would put all the riches in Ancient Egypt to shame.

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Be earnest!  It's more vulnerable, but infinitely better for all of us, and one of the best ways to make the most of your 4000 weeks. 

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Start something. SOMETHING. ANYTHING. Do something... for a while.

Work. Learn. Grow. Repeat. Happiness.

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