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Gretchen Rubin

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Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

That actually made my transition much easier than it usually is because often we know that we want to leave before we know where we want to go. And sometimes it's just helpful to realize like, yeah, you may not know where you want to go, but you know it's time to leave.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

That actually made my transition much easier than it usually is because often we know that we want to leave before we know where we want to go. And sometimes it's just helpful to realize like, yeah, you may not know where you want to go, but you know it's time to leave.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

That actually made my transition much easier than it usually is because often we know that we want to leave before we know where we want to go. And sometimes it's just helpful to realize like, yeah, you may not know where you want to go, but you know it's time to leave.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

I think that's very true for some people, yep. One that I think is funny is you're unique, just like everybody else.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

I think that's very true for some people, yep. One that I think is funny is you're unique, just like everybody else.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

I think that's very true for some people, yep. One that I think is funny is you're unique, just like everybody else.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Oh, this is so helpful. So Dolly Parton can't read music. Michael Jackson couldn't read music. I think when I was growing up, I kind of had this idea that if I was going to do anything, I had to excel at all the parts of it. But now I know people who work in finance who are not good with numbers. I know people who are, you know, highly acclaimed artists who are not good at sketching.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Oh, this is so helpful. So Dolly Parton can't read music. Michael Jackson couldn't read music. I think when I was growing up, I kind of had this idea that if I was going to do anything, I had to excel at all the parts of it. But now I know people who work in finance who are not good with numbers. I know people who are, you know, highly acclaimed artists who are not good at sketching.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Oh, this is so helpful. So Dolly Parton can't read music. Michael Jackson couldn't read music. I think when I was growing up, I kind of had this idea that if I was going to do anything, I had to excel at all the parts of it. But now I know people who work in finance who are not good with numbers. I know people who are, you know, highly acclaimed artists who are not good at sketching.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

This idea that you have to be good at everything to be good at something. Like, you don't have to be good at something to be good at something. I feel like sometimes people limit their possibilities because there's some element that they think is necessary. Maybe you don't need it. Maybe you just work around that. Maybe there's just something that there's some part of it that you just don't do.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

This idea that you have to be good at everything to be good at something. Like, you don't have to be good at something to be good at something. I feel like sometimes people limit their possibilities because there's some element that they think is necessary. Maybe you don't need it. Maybe you just work around that. Maybe there's just something that there's some part of it that you just don't do.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

This idea that you have to be good at everything to be good at something. Like, you don't have to be good at something to be good at something. I feel like sometimes people limit their possibilities because there's some element that they think is necessary. Maybe you don't need it. Maybe you just work around that. Maybe there's just something that there's some part of it that you just don't do.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Yes, that is it. Not deciding is a decision. Yeah. One of the great challenges of life is making decisions, because that's just one of the hardest things that we have to do. And sometimes we just delay and delay and delay. without confronting the fact that not deciding is a decision.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Yes, that is it. Not deciding is a decision. Yeah. One of the great challenges of life is making decisions, because that's just one of the hardest things that we have to do. And sometimes we just delay and delay and delay. without confronting the fact that not deciding is a decision.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Yes, that is it. Not deciding is a decision. Yeah. One of the great challenges of life is making decisions, because that's just one of the hardest things that we have to do. And sometimes we just delay and delay and delay. without confronting the fact that not deciding is a decision.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Because at a certain time, events are foreclosed or something just isn't possible anymore or it's not realistic anymore. I remember when my husband and I first got married, We were moving cities a couple times, and my mother and father said to us, well, if there's someplace you want to go, get there. Because at a certain point, you're just going to stop moving. You get rooted in place.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Because at a certain time, events are foreclosed or something just isn't possible anymore or it's not realistic anymore. I remember when my husband and I first got married, We were moving cities a couple times, and my mother and father said to us, well, if there's someplace you want to go, get there. Because at a certain point, you're just going to stop moving. You get rooted in place.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

Because at a certain time, events are foreclosed or something just isn't possible anymore or it's not realistic anymore. I remember when my husband and I first got married, We were moving cities a couple times, and my mother and father said to us, well, if there's someplace you want to go, get there. Because at a certain point, you're just going to stop moving. You get rooted in place.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

It becomes much more challenging to keep moving. Obviously, some people do, but it becomes harder. And I thought that was such good advice because... We might have just ended up someplace, not because we were deciding that we wanted to spend the next 30 years there, but just because we hadn't thought about it.

Something You Should Know
The Secrets to Being a Successful Adult & Building Your Own Mental Fitness

It becomes much more challenging to keep moving. Obviously, some people do, but it becomes harder. And I thought that was such good advice because... We might have just ended up someplace, not because we were deciding that we wanted to spend the next 30 years there, but just because we hadn't thought about it.