More stuff I saved because it was funny or useful or somehow worth saving:

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Changing life patterns: use habit substitution (replace smoking with chewing gum – can’t do both); habit attachment (append new habit to existing one, like floss after brushing).

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When dealing with clutter, I pick up an object and go “where should I put this?”, and of course this doesn’t work, because if I knew that, I would’ve put it there in the first place. It’s clutter because I didn’t have an answer.

So instead, I say “Where should this be a year from now?”

For some reason, this elicits entirely different answers. It cuts through the paralysis and imagines a future where the needful has been done.

Start with a very small habit that doesn’t take a whole lot of willpower to do and consistently do it…like do 1 sit up, and do it EVERY DAY.

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((I actually found this one to be helpful:))
Procrastinate later! What’s the rush? There’s always tomorrow!

((Also on procrastination:))
“Discipline is much more valuable than motivation.”

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In times of crisis, the wise build bridges, the fools build barriers.

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 “When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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Look for the word “homeopathic” on the label: that’s Greek for useless.

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I had no idea so many women wanted to be my friend until I started dating …@Spaziotwat

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The duty of the general is to ride by the ranks on horseback, show himself to those in danger, praise the brave, threaten the cowardly, encourage the lazy, fill up gaps, transpose a company if necessary, bring aid to wearied, anticipate the crisis, the hour, and the outcome. – Onasander

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And in good news from FutureCrunch (2024!):

Everything in America is awful
Apart from the fact that marriage rates are up and divorce rates are down, the percentage of Americans without health insurance has fallen by almost half since 2010, employment for people in their prime working years is at its highest level in more than two decades, manufacturing construction spending has climbed to $225 billion per month, cholesterol levels are gradually improving across the country, and life expectancy has increased for the first time in two years thanks to a levelling off of overdose deaths.

I save interesting sayings that I find on the internet. Here are some from 2016-2018 but which still make me laugh… or learn:

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> Old Chinese proverb: You can’t polish a turd.

Rlippa: But you can sure step in it… over and over and over again.

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” …You Don’t Tug On Superman’s Cape…

You Don’t Spit Into The Wind
You Don’t Pull The Mask Off The Old Lone Ranger
And You Don’t Mess Around With “A Grand Jury Subpoena.”

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Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, tells me: “The result will violate a cardinal national security rule: Avoid having more than one nuclear crisis at a time.”

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biffbobfred Ars Scholae Palatinae:

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My grandmother was kinda like this. At night she got up and laid on the bathroom floor, probably because the tiles were cool and soothing (no evidence of a fall). My sis found her in the morning. No known cause of death. I can guarantee she was not part of Project Mayhem or whatever. Human bodies are incredibly complex. Sometimes I wonder why we don’t randomly explode. The fact that some people live for 30,000 days or more is still magic to me. Not a miracle but magic. 

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I don’t know why men go to bars to meet women.

Go to Target.

The female to male ratio is 10 to 1 & they’re already looking for things they don’t need.

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Remember, folks, you can lead a gift horse to water, but you can’t look him in the mouth. (Or something like that.)  Sometimes you just have to bite the hand that you’re dealt.

We could stand here and talk until the cows turn blue.  But we have to get all our ducks on the same page, or the fan is gonna hit the roof.

Wake up and smell the music.  Don’t count your chickens without breaking a few eggs!

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You never realize how many shortcuts a computer has until a cat sits on the keyboard.

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Libertarians believe consenting adults have the right to do whatever they choose, except band together. — Emo Philips

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/11/14/raccoons-drunk-crab-apples-cause-false-rabies-scare-west-virginia/:

High animals are more common as more jurisdictions legalize marijuana and people plop the drug into tasty edibles that also appeal to their pets, who can’t read warning labels and don’t typically have the impulse control to stop at one, Brulliard reported.