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1. Stop Insane Behavior

2. Once I had this bit of tendonitis in my
wrist. It was something I had many
times before.

3. And I knew if I went to the doctor, they
would tell me the same thing.

4. Take some Advil, put some ice on it,
and it if keeps hurting, we'll inject you
with cortisone.

5. Basically, since I knew the drill by
heart, it was my "go-to" routine
whenever it would flair up.

6. Only once a female friend talked me
into going to the doctor.

7. Since this was the first time she saw
me with this ailment, it was new.

8. And foolishly, I gave in. Went and
waited an hour. Paid the co-payment
(which at the time was $70.)

9. And was told the same thing. Advil,
ice, cortisone if it doesn't work.

10. She seemed happy. She said, "Well, at
least you know!"

11. But I already knew.

12. She seemed to think the doctor would
use some secret doctor magic to fix it,
and when he didn't she fell back on
the "Well, at least you know!" answer.

13. This is what all of us do all the time.

14. We have some goal or intention.

15. We fail.

16. Then we RE-FRAME our original
intention, so we don't feel like a
failure.

17. We do this to protect our ego.

18. If every time we didn't get what we
wanted, and we did feel like a failure,
pretty soon we'd stop trying.

19. However, when we do something
when we KNOW what's going to
happen, (like some doctor charging
you $70 to tell you to take some Advil)
it's kind of foolish.

20. This is what they mean when they talk
about doing the same thing over and
over and expecting a different result.

21. Humans are goal driven creatures.

22. Every single day, we have hundreds, if
not thousands, of small goals.

23. We set them, we take action, we
achieve them.

24. Sure, some of these are pretty simple,
like eating and going to the toilet.

25. But often times they are of the
"insanity" type. We keep trying the
same thing, but it still doesn't work.

26. Our brains are incredibly fast and
powerful, which can sometimes be our
achilles heal.

27. Meaning we're doing the same things
over and over, but we're pretending
we're doing different things.

28. Maybe talking to different people and
different locations, but we're using the
same strategies and operating from
the same mindset of beliefs.

29. If you've got a horrible golf swing,
buying new clubs won't help.

30. Or if you suck at playing the piano,
buying a new keyboard won't help.

31. But that's we do, while pretending
we're "doing something different."

32. A fantastic way to beat this common
mistake is to keep a journal.

33. Write down your big life goals, and
every day, write down what you did to
get closer.

34. Then write down what happened.

35. Then write down what you could do
tomorrow.

36. This way, you'll elevate your natural
goal setting and getting mechanism up
to the conscious level.

37. And THAT'S when things start to click.

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