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The Shrewd Entrepreneur MRR Ebook

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Introduction

You’ve decided to enter into the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of business, an exhilarating and challenging endeavor. The journey of building and growing a successful business requires more than simply a good idea and hard work. It demands a unique mindset and effective strategies that can withstand the trials and tribulations that come with entrepreneurship.

Mindset and strategies serve as the twin pillars upon which entrepreneurial success is built. They are the driving forces that ignite that spark of innovation, fuel determination, and enable entrepreneurs, like yourself, to navigate the complex and ever-changing business landscape.

Whether you’re a seasoned businessperson looking to enhance your skills or a budding visionary embarking on your new voyage, understanding and harnessing the power of mindset and how to create winning strategies will significantly influence your chances of success.

Why does mindset matter? The mindset of an entrepreneur shapes their perspective, decision-making, and resilience in the face of challenges. It is the foundation upon which you build your businesses, fostering creativity, adaptability, and a relentless pursuit of your goals.

For instance, a growth mindset propels entrepreneurs to view obstacles as opportunities for learning and development, enabling them to bounce back from failures and setbacks with renewed determination.

On the same token, your strategies form the blueprint for your success. A well-crafted strategy acts as a roadmap and guide towards your main objectives, allocating resources effectively, and capitalizing on opportunities. A good strategy ensures that every action taken aligns with the overall vision, fostering a sense of direction and purpose. Practicing effective strategies allows you to leverage all your strengths, mitigate risks, and optimize your chances of achieving sustainable growth in your business.

Success as an entrepreneur is not determined by luck or circumstances; it’s a result of deliberate choices, a good mindset, and well-executed strategies. But how do entrepreneurs acquire these skills? Let’s take a look.

Chapter 1: Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset

It’s not just about having a brilliant idea or a unique product, but that’s a great start. You have to cultivate the right mindset—a way of thinking and approaching challenges that sets you apart from the rest.

There are a number of traits and characteristics that successful entrepreneurs possess, and you can develop yourself to enhance your chances of achieving your goals.

Understanding the traits and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs

1. Passion and Vision: The key driving for behind entrepreneurs is passion. Successful entrepreneurs possess a deep-seated enthusiasm for their ideas, products, or services, that fuels their determination and commitment. A clear vision guides that drive down the right path, helping them set ambitious goals and navigate over the obstacles with incredible focus.

2. Resilience and Perseverance: This type of life path is not for the faint of heart. It requires considerable resilience in the face of adversity and the ability to persevere through many challenges and failures. Successful entrepreneurs understand that setbacks are merely stepping stone to success. They embrace failures as opportunities to learn and grow, bouncing back with renewed determination and adaptability.

3. Risk-Taking and Decision-Making: Entrepreneurs are comfortable taking risks. Not any risks, but calculated risks. They understand that sometimes extraordinary results require them to take a step outside of their comfort zone and embrace uncertainty. Successful entrepreneurs possess a keen sense of judgment and the ability to make quick and informed decisions, weighing the potential rewards against the risks involved.

The Side Hustlers Blueprint MRR Ebook

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Introduction

Did you know that you can turn any hobby you have into a business with no trouble whatsoever? You can make just about any business a side hustle where you can make some serious money doing what you love, and if you take the time to work really hard at it, it could become your main hustle. Or it could at least become a massive part of your income.

However, so many prospective side hustlers don?t know where to start and have no idea how to turn their business from an idea in their head to something that can actually make them some money when they need it. That?s actually what this book is for and likely why you picked it up in the first place, because you are sure you could get your side hustle working if you only had a blueprint for success. Well, thankfully with this blueprint book, you do!

In these pages we are going to break down some of the tips and tricks to get yourself inside of a side hustler?s mindset, and what you need to do to make sure that you are fully ready to get your side hustle off the ground and into the space of being very profitable.

Look, you have some amazing idea in your head for some side hustle that will change your life, provide value to your customers, and maybe even change the world. That can be good or bad, because you could either be extremely excited to show your side hustle to the world or you might just be convinced that it will never work. But no matter your thoughts on side hustling or what your side hustle is, you need to ensure that you read this blueprint book.

Because every single side hustle (no matter what it is) and every single person who wants to own a side hustle business (no matter who they are), has had to follow the same basic steps to prepare themselves for the success that they have had. This book is going to share those steps, and if you follow them, you will be 100% primed for your own brand of success.

Here?s what you need to know in order to take your side hustle out of your head and into a field of serious success.

Chapter 1: Embracing The Side Hustler Mindset

Whether you are a firm believer in the Law of Attraction/Assumption, believe that like attracts like, or have no interest in any of that at all, you still need to understand that owning a side hustle takes some serious mindset work. While you might be champing at the bit to work on taking action and building your business from the ground up, you need to stop and do some inner work first. If you approach the outer action with a serious mindset, then you will get a lot more done than if you try to take action while sabotaging yourself with your inner talk.

First, you need to get excited about your side hustle. Far too many people see side hustling as a massive mountain that they need to climb. Much like a real mountain, you might start off with some serious enthusiasm, but about halfway up you will start to get tired and want to go back down. This can cause some serious problems if you have invested a lot of money into your side hustle, but then want to quit when the going gets tough.

The fastest way to overcome this problem is to continually get excited about your side hustle, and the best way to get excited is to focus on the benefits. Side hustling can bring a lot of benefits to your life and it is important to not just remind yourself of them at the start of your business journey, but also during the journey so you can keep pushing ahead.

Discovering the Benefits of Side Hustling

Obviously, the first benefit is that you get to do something you love, and you get to work with your passion. Whether your side hustle is baking cookies for people, writing custom code for business, or providing coaching about something that you really care about, you should be extremely excited and passionate about the topic you are working with. Working with your passion, and working on your side hustle, should bring you some serious joy and excitement in your life.

You should be extremely excited every single time you sit down to work on your side hustle because it is something you are very excited about. That?s one of the biggest benefits, and it can really make you feel good after a long and hard day to come home and work on your side hustle.

Another big benefit of having a side hustle is that you can make some extra money sharing what you love with the world. Whether you are making money by sharing a product or service or performing commissions for a fee, getting a little extra income never harmed anyone.

Additionally, you will be able to watch your customers benefit directly from what you are doing and selling. Being able to watch your products, services, or talents make someone else smile can be a massive benefit that just makes you feel good.

Chatgpt Blueprint PLR Ebook

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20 Ways to profit from ChatGPT

Section #1: Creating a report

Creating a report on ChatGPT is very easy.

But creating a high-quality report on ChatGPT is going to take some effort.

If you’re going to create a report, let’s say the Keto diet, you can simply type in “write a report about the keto diet”, or “what is the keto diet”.

And then start asking specific questions.

For example, you can ask about key statistics, relevant research, or important considerations. Be as precise as possible in your questions to get more focused responses.

You should also read through the generated responses from ChatGPT and identify the most relevant information that answers your questions. Look for key facts, explanations, or insights that support your report’s objectives. You can then ask it to elaborate on those things.

And then you have to organize the information. Create an outline with headings and subheadings to ensure a clear flow of ideas. Group related information together under each section.

When you feel ready, write an introduction. Start your report with an introduction that provides background information and sets the context for your topic. Clearly state the purpose of the report and briefly introduce the main points you will cover.

As for the main body, expand on the key points you identified earlier, using the information extracted from ChatGPT. Write paragraphs or sections that present and explain each point in a clear and concise manner. Make sure to provide supporting evidence or examples where necessary.

In the conclusion, summarize the main findings or insights from your report. Highlight the key takeaways and their significance.

Lastly, make sure your report is easy to read. Apply appropriate formatting to your report, such as using headings, bullet points, or numbered lists to enhance readability. Add any necessary visual aids, such as charts or graphs, if relevant to your report.

Section #2: Where to sell your reports

There are dozens of different online platforms where you can sell your reports.

Here are just a couple of them…

Amazon KDP

You can publish your report as a book and sell it on Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing).

Amazon is the largest online retailer globally, with a massive customer base. Publishing on Amazon KDP allows you to tap into this extensive network, making your book accessible to millions of potential readers worldwide.

Amazon KDP offers a user-friendly platform that simplifies the publishing process. It allows you to upload your book files, set pricing and distribution options, and publish your book in digital eBook format and print-on-demand paperback format. Moreover, publishing on Amazon KDP is free, eliminating upfront costs typically associated with traditional publishing.

It also provides various royalty options, allowing authors to earn royalties on each sale. You can choose between two royalty plans: the 35% royalty option or the 70% royalty option, depending on factors like book price, file size, and distribution choices.

Amazon KDP specializes in Kindle eBooks, which are compatible with various Kindle devices, as well as Kindle reading apps available on smartphones, tablets, and computers. Publishing in Kindle format allows readers to access your book easily on their preferred devices.

In addition to eBooks, Amazon KDP offers print-on-demand paperback publishing through its subsidiary, Kindle Direct Publishing Paperback. This means your book can be printed and shipped to customers on-demand, eliminating the need for upfront inventory costs or storage concerns.

By enrolling your eBook in Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners' Lending Library, you can make your book available to Amazon Prime members. This can increase your book's visibility and potential readership.

Amazon KDP provides various marketing and promotional tools, such as Kindle Countdown Deals and Free Book Promotions. These promotions can help increase your book's visibility, attract new readers, and potentially improve sales rankings.

Regulated Eating Strategies PLR Ebook

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Foreword

It occurs so very frequently - we resolve to go on with a health and physical fitness program with zest and likely much fanfare too; however in the first week of going into the plan, everything peters out.

Why is it that we don?t stick with the diet plans, the morning jogging plans, the physical exercise plans that we make?

And what may we do to ensure we keep going with these plans, for our own sake and for the sake of the individuals that are dependent on us?

Are you eating simply to satisfy your appetite or to make your taste buds happy? Or are you eating in order to take better command of your life?

In this eBook, we see how you are able to make your life much more optimal simply by making a point that you eat correctly.

Regulated Eating Strategies

Make Food Your Friend Instead Of Your Enemy!

Chapter 1:

Why We Have The Problems We Get Into

SSynopsis

In today?s world, seldom do any health and fitness plans work. What?s the reason for their alarming rate of failure?

The world is a lot less healthful than it was two decades ago. Much this is attributed to the altered food habits of individuals.

What Happens

If we hear about the failure of diets or gym plans all around us, commonly it isn?t their fault. Commonly it is the fault of the individuals who started with much commotion about going through these plans, telling all their acquaintances and co-workers about it, and then didn't abide by those programs. The individuals who abandon the exercise or diet halfway do not see the advantages, naturally, and everybody blames the plan.

What the world needs nowadays isn?t a fresh health or fitness program or a diet, but it requires motivation. It needs the correct sort of mind-set to follow through with whatever plan they have chosen to the very end.

If they can do that, most of the health issues that are related to life-style situations will get to be outmoded. And we don?t have to visit the corners of the earth to discover this motivation. The motivation lies right here, inside us; we simply need to search it out and utilize it.

One generation ago, individuals wouldn't dream of picking up whatever junk food they could get in order to feed their faces. Nowadays, we do that so very casually. “I'm hungry” commonly means “I want a burger or a hot dog, likely with chips on the side and some cola.” And, “I am on a diet” means “I am on a chemically ridden pill which will defeat my hunger and deprive my body of vitamins.”

It's genuinely no wonder that we are facing so many health issues today.

Our health is an indicator of what we consume. The sorry condition that we're living in isn't an individual problem; it's a global issue. The world as a whole is eating incorrectly. Six in every ten individuals in the US is overweight, and the number is going to be eight in every ten individuals by the time we hit 2015.

Are we truly thinking about this? We aren?t. Even as you're studying this eBook, you likely have a packet of chips on the side. Do you know that what you spent on that package, which is filling your stomach with some of the most toxic chemicals known to humanity, could instead have fed an emaciated youngster in Ruanda?

But it?s not simply about being philanthropic. It?s about ourselves too. Yes, we have to be selfish. With such appalling health figures, aren?t we heading for doom? We're definitely not eating right. Whatever excess baggage that brings - obesity and the assorted ill health in its wake - we have to be prepared for it.

So the next time you see that a program has failed or is receiving a lot of criticism, remember that the criticism isn?t probably because the program stands on shaky ground. In most cases, it is because people began with great intentions and then did not follow the program as they should have.

Chapter 2:

Changing The Mentality

Synopsis

The most crucial thing that you need to keep your health and fitness program alive - even more crucial than an instructor or a doctor - is your own motive.

You have to be determined to scrutinize the situation. So, you're overweight and are looking at casting off a few pounds. No gym instructor from anyplace in the world will help you if you don?t take adequate measures to have the right diet and to stick to your routine exercise.

Even if you're sick and are looking at treatment, no physician will help if you aren?t determined in following the treatment platform, whether it's taking the medication at the correct time or abstaining from some foods.

Alif Blows Bubbles PLR Ebook

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Alfi was in the garden blowing bubbles.

The bubbles were big round and had all the colours of the rainbow in them.

Some of the bubbles flew high in the air over the tree tops.

Some stayed close to the ground and bumped around the flowers.

Alfi blew a stream of bubbles over the daises.

Some of these bumped together and popped showering little shower drops of water onto the flowers.

Now sitting in one of the flowers, minding there own business, gathering nectar and pollen, were two large black and yellow bees.

The bees were being showered every now and then with sudden bursts of soapy rain.

Just when they had gathered an armful of pollen, splosh they were hit in the face with a sudsy drop of water, this made them drop all their pollen over the flower.

The two bees were getting cross.

Alfi was still running round the garden enjoying himself, blowing the bubbles, as the two bees looked over the edge of the flower to see what was going on.

" Now that." said the first bee. " Is the problem."

The answer to the problem they both thought was to remove the bubbles.

Together the bees decided to burst all the bubbles with thereir little pointy sting.

Zooming out from the flower the bees rushed around the garden, bursting as many bubbles as they could find. It was hard work.

Alfi, far from being sad at seeing his bubbled being burst, thought that it was fun and started blowing more bubbles.

The bees were buzzing around like wild things, while Alfi was blowing more and more bubbles.

The buzzy bees got so out of breath they had to go back to a large daisy for a rest and a cup of nectar.

A Month Of Bedtime Stories PLR Ebook

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THIS STORY IS a little bit different from other stories. Usually stories are about other people but this story is about you. And usually stories are made up but this story is all true. It’s about all the amazing things you did today, all that climbing and jumping and meeting an alien!

I know what you’re thinking: you’re thinking: I didn’t meet an alien today!

Oh yes you did! You just can’t remember because you got a bonk on the head which made you forget all about it.

Let me tell you what happened.

We were going to cook dinner but we’d run out of potatoes. “Don’t worry,” you said. “I know where to get potatoes.” And off you went to the woods.

When you got to the woods, you climbed that really big tree because you thought it was a potato tree.

Sometimes you can be a little bit silly, but that’s OK – we still love you.

So you climbed that tree, the biggest tree in the woods. You know the one I mean. Up and up you went, higher and higher and upper and upper, until you’d climbed right up above the clouds. Then you looked out from the top branches and all you could see were clouds in every direction, like a big ocean of clouds and not a potato in sight.

It was then that you started to think, Hmmm, maybe potatoes don’t grow on trees after all.

And then for some reason you started to laugh.“Ha!” you said.

Then you said, “Ha ha!”

Then you said, “Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! I don’t know why … ha ha … I’m laughing. There’s nothing … ha ha … funny up here.”

“It’s the oxygen,” said a voice.

“What oxygen?” you asked.

“Trees make oxygen,” said the voice. “You’re right at the top of this tree, the biggest in the woods, so there’s a lot of oxygen up here.

Breathing in oxygen makes you feel happy and that’s why you’re laughing.”

“Oh,” you said. And then you thought, Where is that voice coming from?

“You’re probably wondering where this voice is coming from, aren’t you?” said the voice.

“Well, yes I am, actually,” you replied.

“Look up,” said the voice.

So you looked up and there, hovering silently just above your head, was a flying saucer!

And inside the cockpit was a dog!

“Blinkin’ Nora!” you said. “It’s a dog in a flying saucer!”

“I’m not a dog,” said the dog that wasn’t a dog. “I’m an alien. Grrrr.”

“You look like a dog,” you said, “and you growl like one.” “You look like a globbleplop,” said the alien.

“A globbleplop?” you said. “What’s a globbleplop?”

“It’s something we have on my planet. We throw sticks and globbleplops fetch them.”

“You mean to say on your planet you keep children as pets?” you asked.

“They’re not children,” said the alien. “They’re globbleplops.” “Whatever,” you said. “What are you doing here, anyway?” “I’m observing your planet,” the alien replied. “Observing it? Why?”

“That information is top secret. What are you doing here?”

“That information is also top secret,” you said, “and I ain’t gonna tell ya.”

Well, that alien didn’t look very happy at all. Maybe it was because he was a nosy sort of alien and he really wanted to know why you had climbed that great big tree. Or maybe he just didn’t like children who said things like “I ain’t gonna tell ya.” Whatever the reason, after a bit of the old silent treatment, he eventually said, “Oh, very well. I’ll give you a ride in my flying saucer if you agree to tell me why you climbed that big tree.”

“Wow!” you said. “A ride in a flying saucer! It’s a deal!”

So you climbed into the passenger seat and the flying saucer flew up into the sky. Higher and higher it went, so high that all the people on the Earth below looked like little ants and the ants didn’t look like anything because you couldn’t see them at all. And still you went higher and higher and upper and upper until you were so high you were in space.

“Jiminy Cricket!” you said. “We’re in space!”

“Space is nothing,” said the alien. “I go into space all the time. Why, I go into space every morning just to buy a newspaper. My name is Nanoodle Snagglebottom by the way, but you can call me Nanoo for short. What’s your name?”

Positive Mindset MRR Ebook

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Introduction

Have you ever been warned that your negative attitude would spread to others? Or have you ever experienced someone’s positive attitude lifting up your spirits and making you feel better?

Attitude is the mood in which you project outwards to the world. It’s your mental and emotional feelings towards something or someone. If you have a negative attitude, you are typically behaving aggressively without cooperation. In a positive attitude, you behave the opposite.

Attitude is a crucial part of how you communicate with others. It’s also crucial to achieving success. With the right attitude and keeping the right mindset, you can achieve anything that you set your mind to. How you feel about the work you are doing and the goals you want to achieve is just as important as your attitude in your communication.

Achieving true success requires you to check your attitude while focusing on your goals. Having a negative attitude towards your goals, saying “there’s no way that I can do this,” or “I might as well just give up,” will hinder your progress greatly. A positive and determined mindset, or attitude, is the best way to make sure you are on the path to achieving everything you want to achieve.

We understand that having the right kind of attitude can be difficult to achieve. It may take time to understand what kind of attitude you should have to complete your goals and make the big changes in your life.

The most successful people out there are those with a strong and good attitude, one that matches the work they are doing and helps them achieve what they desire. In the upcoming chapters, we will talk about how to find the attitude that will help you achieve your goals. We will talk about the different kinds of attitudes you can have that are helpful to your career. Of course, we will also talk more in-depth about why having certain attitudes is a huge tool for your professional success.

Again, the way you see the world around you is your more powerful tool for getting what you want. Let’s take a look at why that is.

Chapter 1: Understanding Why Attitude Impacts Emotions and Behaviors

Attitude is the collection of emotions and feelings towards a subject matter. If you walk into a meeting thinking that you can’t stand the people in the room and all you want to do is to go home, that would be walking into your meeting with a negative attitude.

What’s important to understand about attitudes is how they are contagious. People with positive attitudes have been known to light up a room whereas those with negative attitudes drag everyone down with them. This is because we rely on the people we are around much more than we think we do. The people around you will influence how you think and act, which can be both very good, or very negative.

Not only do your emotions make up your attitude, but your attitude contributes to your emotions and behaviors. If you have ever gotten into a cycle where your emotions and attitude feed off of each other, the impact that attitude has on how you feel is responsible.

Many people believe that it is primarily our attitudes that drive our behavior. However, just as we talked about the impact of attitude on emotions, there is more to it than how you feel is how you will act. Doing something based on your attitude can reinforce how you are feeling, once again leading into a cycle.

There are three main components to the impact of our attitude on our minds including the affective component, the behavioral component, and the cognitive component. Let’s discuss each aspect and how each is used to lead to the behaviors and thought processes that we have.

The Affective Component of Attitude

The Affective component of your attitude refers to your thoughts. If you have a fear of failure, the affective component of your attitude may look like you thinking “I don’t want to fail” or “I don’t want to look like a failure around all of my coworkers.”

Knowing your affective component is the easiest part of understanding your attitude toward something. This is the surface layer of your attitude. Oftentimes, what you are thinking is your first reaction to a situation.

It is your first thoughts when something happens or is what you are thinking when you first meet someone. With the affective component of your attitude being at the surface level, it is also the easiest aspect of your attitude to change and make more positive.

We will come back to your thinking patterns several times throughout this book.

Effective Facebook Marketing MRR Ebook

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Facebook is a massive traffic monster. As of this writing, it has over 1.3 billion, and that's with a capital B, daily active users.

Think about that, over 1.3 billion people using the same website day after day. On top of this, it continues to grow.

Also, when people are on Facebook, they pretty much stay there, and they view page after page of content. In fact, on a month to month basis, as of 2017, Facebook has slightly over 2 billion monthly active users.

Of all Americans, 79% use Facebook at some level or another.

If this wasn't impressive enough, the next platform that gets the highest percentage of American users is Instagram, which is owned by Facebook. Instagram clocks in at 32% of American usage.

Among US residents, 53% reportedly use Facebook several times a day.

In terms of the world's total population, more than 22% of people on the planet use Facebook with some level of frequency.

The point is, Facebook is a massive traffic monster. You really cannot afford to miss out on Facebook and its marketing potential.

If this wasn't impressive enough, wait, it gets even more mind blowing. Once people log into Facebook, the system basically keeps tight surveillance on them. And the crazy thing is that this is all done with their permission.

When you sign up for Facebook, there is a user license agreement that you must consent to. Unless you read the fine print, you wouldn't become fully aware that once you sign in, every like, comment, share, as well as pages that you liked and even ads that you clicked, will be monitored by Facebook.

It's as if by watching your behavior, Facebook can make educated guesses as to what your interests are and can then show you advertising that fits those interests.
Sounds pretty fair, right?

Well, this extends across the board. That's right, every group you join as well as interactions on Messenger are monitored, tracked and targeted by Facebook.
This is not lightweight targeting, mind you. When it comes to fine laser targeting of demographic groups based on individual user behavior, nothing even comes close to Facebook.

As awesome as these traffic statistics, advertising technologies, and promotion potential may be, I've got some bad news to report. Too many businesses still fail to fully leverage Facebook.

This training teaches you the best ways to promote on Facebook. It also gives you step by step instructions, so you can engage in Facebook marketing with a higher than average chance of success.

There are very common marketing mistakes that even promotion veterans commit on Facebook. It seems like even the very best of us are not immune to these common mistakes.

It's a good idea, if you want to save a lot of time, effort and money at this point, to become aware of these mistakes.

This will decrease the likelihood that you will probably commit these same errors.

Starting Off Paid Campaigns with a Bang

Do not start off your paid campaigns with a bang. Start with a free campaign first, build your audience organically, get some consumer intelligence, then you should have the information you need to put together an experimental paid marketing campaign.

Start low and slow. The worst thing you can do is to jump in with a massive budget, and absolutely no clue.

Starting a Paid Campaign with an Immature Page

If your page is very new or there's really not that much engagement yet, you might want to hold off on a paid campaign. You simply don't have enough target audience profiling information to base a successful paid campaign on.

Declutter Magic MRR Ebook

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Let's face it, most people play a losing game. To quote from Tyler Durden from the cult classic movie "Fight Club": We buy the stuff we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't even like.

That's the kind of life we're living. I know it sounds harsh. I know it sounds judgmental, but it's also the truth. Unfortunately, for far too many of us, we equate having stuff with living worthy lives.

We equate the stuff that we wear, the stuff that we own, and the things we focus on with the quality of our lives. In fact, for far too many people, stuff or possessions are one and the same as self and self-worth.

This should not be a surprise because far too many people confuse price with value. We think that the more expensive something is, the more value it has, and we allow ourselves to feel worthwhile, appreciated, and acknowledged depending on the price of the stuff we have access to.

What is wrong with this picture? We live our lives based on what is expected of us instead of what we actually want for ourselves. Too many people live their lives based on values they uncritically and unthinkingly "copy and pasted" from others.

In fact, a lot of adult children are simply living their lives based on a script that they automatically imported from their parents. They did not stop to challenge the script. In fact, a lot of people didn't even bother to read it at all. They feel that since their parents live a certain way and thought about things a certain way that they should do the same thing.

There is no attempt at any kind of analysis as to whether that script makes any sense as far as their lives are concerned. They don't think about a better fit between the script and the lives they are living out.

They don't consider whether the script has a specific historical or emotional context that may or may not be relevant today. They just automatically assume that since somebody they love and respect chose to live their life a certain way, then this path is the way forward.

It is no surprise that Americans, by and large, are not happy. The end result of everything I have described above is not pretty. We Americans are overmedicated. We are maxed out on our credit cards and are overstressed.

In spite of all the money, time, effort, and mental energy we spend on getting more and more stuff, we are nowhere close to being content.

We are actually nowhere near to living the kind of joyful life we initially sought out to achieve. The reason for this is actually quite obvious - we live cluttered lives. What makes this tragic is that we are not even aware of Most people are so stressed out that they are not as effective as they could be. Their relationships suffer. They don't do a good job at work, they break down easily, and can barely handle challenges that life throws their way.

You have to understand that life is not smooth nor easy. Life, after all, is made up of one unpleasant surprise after another. Some of these surprises can turn out to be positive if you prepare yourself properly.

Sadly, too many people choose not to do this because, at some level or other, they feel that they are entitled for things to be smooth, quick, easy, and convenient. It's no surprise that so many people are stressed out. Most people are so stressed that they are not as happy and content as they could be.

They focus on what they can get not just today, but tomorrow. They are focused on things that have already happened. They obsess about past failures, disappointments, and missed opportunities. They often engage in finding people and situations to blame for things that are going on in their lives in the here and now.

This is mental clutter. Unfortunately, a lot of people think that not only is this perfectly natural, but it actually defines who they are as individuals. That's right; you heard that correctly.

They believe that this is an integral part of their identity as human beings. Talk about missing the point. Talk about misreading the total picture.

Mental clutter, unfortunately, doesn't fall out of the sky. It doesn't appear at random. It is not something that you luck into. Instead, it is part of a larger equation. Believe it or not, physical clutter leads to mental clutter, and this produces a self-enforcing mechanism.

The more mental clutter you suffer from, the more you tend to create physical clutter around you. And when you see this in your physical surroundings, you stress out and create even more mental clutter. The process repeats itself over and over again.