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Lesson 2: Reset Your Standard to Avoid Self-Sabotage

Cultivate a mindset of adequacy and sufficiency over obligation. Focus on achieving a few meaningful outcomes each day.

When you’re indebted to someone, it’s like carrying a stone in your pocket — a weight that’s hard to ignore. When your sense of obligation expands to the entire world, it can grow into a boulder, dragging you down no matter how hard you try to move forward. Many of us feel this kind of burden — the constant pressure to “do more” to justify our existence…

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