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Welcome to Quest, a weekly newsletter where I provide ideas to help you build a life you love — one filled with more energy, purpose, and joy.
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Quote: Happy Life
Useful Ideas: Success, Habits, Transformation
Exercise: Relationships
Story: Focus
Thought: Day One
Quote
Farmer, Thomas Mitchell on happiness:
"One of the best secrets of a happy life is the art of extracting comfort and sweetness from every circumstance...
People are always looking for happiness at some future time and in some new thing, or some new set of circumstances, in possession of which they some day expect to find themselves. But the fact is, if happiness is not found now, where we are, and as we are, there is little chance of it ever being found. There is a great deal more happiness around us day by day than we have the sense or power to seek and find.
If we are to cultivate the art of living, we should cultivate the art of extracting sweetness and comfort out of everything, as the bee goes from flower to flower in search of honey."
Source: Essays on Life
Useful Ideas
I.
Success isn't easy. There's a price to pay.
What’s the price? Hard work and time.
Most people don’t want to work hard for a long period of time —they want quick and easy.
This benefits you as it keeps them out of the race.
There is less competition than you think.
II.
The most important habits in our lives don’t just help us achieve something, they help us become someone.
III.
People want new results while operating in old ways.
Old ways won't open new doors.
Transformation requires new beliefs, habits, and relationships.
Change your thoughts
Change your actions
Change your people
Your life doesn't get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Exercise
Do you know what the number one predictor of longevity is?
I’ll give you a clue: it’s not diet, exercise, or sleep.
It’s the quality of your social connections.
Your relationships matter more than your genetics.
Sadly, at a time when we are more “connected” than ever today through the internet, statistics show that we are more isolated, lonely, and depressed than we’ve ever been.
We have to be intentional to build strong relationships.
Here’s a simple exercise that can help:
On a notecard, or in the Notes app, write out a list of people that are important to you. Every week, try to reach out to a few people on the list. It could be a phone call, a text, a FaceTime, a voice message, or an e-mail. It doesn’t have to take a lot of time and it isn’t meant to be a burden.
Very few people do this.
This will help you live in more congruence, as you’re taking actions that are aligned with your values (caring about people).
This exercise has the power to change your quality of life (vitality) and quantity of life (longevity), and it offers the same benefits to the people you’re connecting with.
To get into a focused state, we need to get comfortable with “accepting the initial agitation.”
Andrew Huberman explains that "the agitation is indeed the doorway to the whole process."
I think about this twice a day.
Every morning when I sit down to read & then when I sit down to write, I say to myself,
"Accept the initial agitation."
When you try to focus, Andrew Huberman explains, "the brain circuits that turn on first are of the stress system."
Meaning:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Billy Oppenheimer (@bpoppenheimer)
9:34 PM • Dec 12, 2023
Thought
In what area of your life do you need to go from saying “one day” to “day one”?
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Make it a great weekend.
Much love,
Beau Burns
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