Public Service Announcement....To create an exceptional life, you need to create exceptional circumstances.

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To create an exceptional life, you need to create exceptional circumstances.

This means that you need to be willing to be different. It means that you have to make choices, and at times, sacrifices for the greater, long-term good. 

It means you have to think ahead, to live in the service of the wellbeing of your future self, as opposed to the moment-to-moment cravings and desires of your current one.

What you see on the surface is people who are thriving, and what you don’t see is the huge machine of effort and work and time that was put into getting there.

That’s the part that people don’t fall in love with, the actual doing of it.

They just like how it looks when it seems like you can coast.

To become the person you really want to be, you are going to have to defy your most essential instinct in life. You are going to have to differentiate yourself. You are going to have to do things others would not. In the words of Mastin Kipp, you must live as others won’t, so you can live as they can’t.

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