Marc and Angel Hack Life

It’s a new day. A new beginning. And things will change.

Tired of dealing with the same frustrations over and over and over again?

Then it’s likely time to purge some bad habits. Remember, you ultimately become what you repeatedly do. If your habits aren’t helping you, they’re hurting you. Here are some fairly common and widespread examples of the latter that will drain all your happiness if you let them:

1. Waiting for the perfect moment to take the next step.

Don’t buy into the myth of the perfect moment. Moments aren’t perfect, they’re what you make of them. So many people wait around for the stars to align to do what they’re here to do. The perfect moment, the perfect opportunity, the perfect state of being, etc. Wake up! Don’t “wait” away the vast majority of your life! Remind yourself that too many people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness. And you don’t be one of them. Ultimately, you will come to succeed not by finding a perfect moment, but by learning to [Read more…]

Peace will come to me, when it comes from me.

Life isn’t all rainbows and butterflies. It can be tough sometimes. And you’ve paid a heavy price to get this far, so your best option is to make it count by moving forward from where you are. Free yourself from the world’s negativity — from the sources of ignorance telling you what you can and cannot do — by promising to look ahead, plan ahead, and get ahead for your own sake. In other words, start making positive promises to yourself!

Promise to fight back, to fight harder, to laugh louder and longer, and to slap negativity back into its seat whenever it dares to stand against you. Promise to be a force to be reckoned with, because you are a force to be reckoned with!

Make these promises to yourself, and keep them forever:

Repeat after me: “I promise…”

1. “I will not hold the past against myself.”

Your problems, your weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes will teach you if you’re willing to learn, or they will punish you if you’re not.  So let them teach you. Take everything as a lesson learned. If you regret some of the decisions you have made in the past, stop being so hard on yourself. At that time, you did your best with the knowledge you had. At that time, you [Read more…]

As you struggle forward, remind yourself that it’s better to be exhausted from little bits of effort, learning and growth, than it is to be tired of doing nothing.

In 1914, the great inventor Thomas Edison experienced a devastating hardship. His entire laboratory burned down to the ground, and several years worth of his work was ruined.

Newspapers described the situation as “the worst thing to happen to Edison!”

But that wasn’t true, because Edison didn’t see it that way at all. The inventor instead chose to see his circumstances as an invigorating opportunity to rebuild and re-examine much of his current work. In fact, Edison reportedly said shortly after the fire, “Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start again fresh.” And that’s exactly what he and his team did.

Think about how this relates to your life.

How many times have you heard it was the end when it was actually the beginning?

How many hopeless headlines have challenged your inner hope?

In both cases it’s probably more than you realize.

The truth is, [Read more…]