Raj Daniels

When was the last time you experienced a change in your life?

If you said right now, then you are correct.

As you read this, cells in your body are continuously changing. They are growing, degrading, and even dying; it’s just that you can’t feel it happening.

The range at which change occurs is between the speed of light and at a glacial pace. And just like the cells in your body, you rarely experience either end of the vast change spectrum. 

Things that might appear solid or even permanent are also undergoing change. There’s decay, entropy, and growth taking place right in front of your eyes, yet it’s not visible to you.

Change is essentially another word for impermanence. And life is impermanent.

Anything you’re experiencing right now is not permanent, although it might feel as though it is. Joy, stress, and any moment’s experience are fleeting. However, it’s just human nature to want to hold on to the joyous moments, squeeze them for all they have, and rush to escape and avoid the stress.

Avoiding change is impossible and is a fool’s errand. Learning to cope with change is a much better strategy. One way to cope with sudden, unwanted change is to evaluate the situation and identify the aspects you can control. Finding a few good footholds you can rely on to support you while you endure the change is one strategy that can help you work through unwelcome change.

Change is the ultimate surprise package. It’s the one thing that doesn’t last, yet happens forever. Learning to handle and work with change is a skill that will serve you well for a lifetime of change.

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How often do you set your intentions for your day?

Now I understand that you can’t foresee everything that will happen during your day, but you can still start your day with a thought or two that will prime your mind for your day.

Setting intentions for yourself when you start your day allows you to choose where your attention will be focused throughout the day. Now, some might argue that if you select where you focus, you’re biasing your outlook, and I would happily agree with them. The question I would have for them is, would you rather bias your own outlook or have external forces do it for you?

Setting intentions can shift you from reactive to proactive in certain situations. For example, if you set out today with the intention of doing, let’s say, three good deeds, then your mind will look for opportunities to execute those deeds. Now, we’re not measuring the size of the deed here, just the act of doing.

Setting your intentions at the beginning of your day gives you a north star for your attention. It provides you with a little bit of clarity amongst all the unpredictable things that can occur throughout your day. Again, setting an intention is not to preempt your natural emotions or reactions. It’s to provide you with opportunities for action.

Ultimately, your collective intentions are the scaffold upon which you build your life; as it has been so eloquently said, your life is a collection of your days. So set an intention or two when you start your day and begin to build the framework for your life.

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How much time do you spend shopping?

Not consuming, but just browsing and looking. And while you look, you’re being sold too and sold.

Here’s a brief timeline of how shopping evolved.

Farms.

Door to door.

Bazaars and markets.

Stores.

Catalogues with home delivery. The first time you could browse and have it delivered.

Malls and shopping centers. Where you had to go to see what was available physically.

And now, there’s 24-hour access—not only for you to shop but also for the sellers to access your mind.

As long as you interact with almost any digital platform – you’re being sold to and sold. Even if you don’t need anything, you’re being reminded or told you do.

You’re on an endless cycle of being sold to. And being in a state of constant consumption is eroding our collective minds. A continuous consumption mindset not only increases financial pressures, but perhaps even more importantly, it consumes so much of your attention.

Right now, as you read this, you are looking at a block of text that doesn’t have any advertising aimed at you. Nothing reminds you that you could or should be either purchasing or considering purchasing one more thing. In fact, this might be the only thing you read today that doesn’t show you an ad or collect your information to sell to an advertiser so that they can sell you something in the future.

However, there is some hypocrisy in my writing because I, too, am trying to sell you. I’m attempting to sell you on the concept of stopping being continuously sold and sold to.

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10 Steps to achieve anything

Okay.

Ready.

Here they are.

1. Do something

2. Learn from it

3. Do something

4. Learn from it

Are you sensing a pattern?

5. Do something

6. Learn from it

Do you think you have the hang of it?

Only 4 steps left.

7. Do something

8. Learn from it

9. Do something

And you guessed it.

10. Learn from it

That’s it!

You did it!

Congratulations!

You can now accomplish anything you set out to do.

Wait!

You didn’t think I was actually going to give you the steps.

Or did you?

The fact is, I hardly know you.

So, how would I know what would work for you?

Every time you read a 3-step guide to X or a 5-easy steps to Y, you’re essentially following the same guidelines as the ones I wrote for you.

Life is rarely cut out into a neat step-by-step process that works for everyone, yet the demand for a step-by-step process to achieve goals and accomplish things is extremely high.

Why?

Because it’s easier than ambiguity.

The hard truth is that for almost anything you will achieve in life, you will have to figure it out yourself. Yes, there are unlimited resources that you can find to help you along the way, but it’s always going to boil down to step one: do something, step two: learn from it, and then, of course, do something.

Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish, sometimes there might only be two steps, and at other times there might be an unlimited number. Ultimately, it’s going to boil down to you taking it step by step.

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How quickly do you slip into self-protection mode?

If you’re not sure what self-protection is, let me help you. It’s the opposite of self-exposure. Essentially, self-protection is defense, and self-exposure is vulnerability. If you’ve ever allowed yourself to share your true feelings with another person, then you’re operating under self-exposure.

As a child, your emotional distance between these two states usually starts out very wide, but as you move through life into adulthood, the distance narrows based on your experiences. 

When you’re in self-protection mode, you’re always looking for danger or threats, whether real or perceived. You feel as though people and situations are always out to get you, and this feeling causes you to close up and become emotionally inaccessible.

One of the most detrimental effects of self-protection mode is disconnection between you and others, and the reason it’s bad for you is that we as a species are designed for connection.

Letting go of being in self-protection mode can be difficult, especially if, based on your past experiences, you feel as though it has served you well. And it might have, but it also has you in a state of constant mental defense. It sets up emotional boundaries that don’t let others in, but also don’t let you out.

Moving from operating in a self-protection mode to self-exposure can be a challenging transition, but doing so will allow you to experience deeper and more fulfilling relationships. Vulnerability is complex and emotionally risky, and self-protection can appear to be the safe route to take. But it’s also hollow, unfulfilling, and the constant pressure of guarding yourself because you feel as though the world is against you is a hard way to go through life. So, consider the alternative.

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Humor me for a minute.

Pick a whole number between one and ten.

Multiply your number by 2.

Multiply the new number by 5.

Divide your current number by your original number.

Now subtract 7 from your current number.

Now give me a moment.

…is the answer 3?

Okay, one more, then I promise no more.

Pick a number.

Now double the number.

Add 10 to your last answer.

Divide your answer by 2.

Now subtract your original number.

…is the answer 5?

Thank you for humoring me by engaging this little trick.

Hopefully, humoring me also added a little smile to your day, too.

As you can see, it rarely takes much effort to brighten yours or someone else’s day for a moment. However, it does take a bit of conscious effort.

So, as you go about your day today, take a moment to make yourself smile. Then, find some unsuspecting target and make them smile, too.

Oh, and if you’re not sure how, you can use the math tricks I used with you.

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When did you last see a sign that read, ‘happiness for sale?’

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess never.

But lurking behind almost everything for sale that is not necessary for safety, security, and survival is the unsaid implication that it will make you happier.

But will it?

There’s a business technique called the 5 Whys. The 5 Whys is an iterative interrogative technique used to explore the cause-and-effect relationships underlying a particular problem. Essentially, in non-business speak, it means that the 5 Whys can help you find what issues caused a problem. The great thing about the 5 Whys process is that it can also be used in your personal life.

The next time you consider making a significant decision or purchase, use the 5 Whys as a filter. I’m going to bet you rarely get to the third or fourth why before you land on something like, ‘because it will make me happy.’

The 5 Whys is an excellent tool for uncovering the deepest reasons for almost anything you do. Although the tool can be very powerful, the downside is that you have to be open to taking time to work on yourself. You’ll have to dig a little deeper into yourself to get to the root of what is motivating you to act.

And if you’re not ready, willing, or open to working on yourself, then maybe that would be the ideal place to use the 5 Whys to ask- why not?

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How would you behave if every person you met was wearing a ‘Help Wanted’ sign?

Would you be curious?

Would you ask them what kind of help they need?

Would you offer to help when appropriate?

Would you show them your help wanted sign?

Everyone needs help in some area of their life, but in many cases, they don’t know how to ask for it, or even worse, they’re afraid to ask for help. They’re embarrassed or feel that asking for help is a sign of weakness. So, they suffer or struggle alone, hoping that eventually they’ll stumble across the solutions to their problems.

Life would be so much easier if there were one giant help jar where you could submit your problems, and then all the help you needed would magically appear. But unfortunately, life doesn’t work like that.

Or does it?

Your problems are rarely unique. Yes, situations and your experience of the problems might be unique, but there’s a high probability that your problem has been solved before. But you’ll never know until you ask for help.

Asking for help is hard because you feel vulnerable. You feel exposed. But asking for help conveys to others that you’re human, and leaves open the possibility that someone else will share with you that they need help too. And that’s how – the magic help jar begins.

What if you’re a magic help jar?

But the caveat is that you can only help someone if you’ve asked for help first.

Maybe the magic help jar isn’t one big jar, but millions of little jars with the capacity to help just a few people at a time. Eliminating one help wanted sign at a time and by doing so, you eliminate your help wanted sign too.

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Follow the flock?

Or.

Be the black sheep?

Follow the crowd?

Or.

Be the misfit?

The choice is yours.

Life is undoubtedly more straightforward if you keep your head down, say nothing, and just keep working on fitting in. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.

But, if you want to be unique, then by definition, you have to be different.

At some point, you will have to make a decision. And then you’ll have to commit to the decision.

And there will be a price to pay for your decision.

The price will take an emotional toll on your mind. You see, the allure, the gravitational pull of the crowd, is incredibly powerful.

You will be asked some form of the following questions every day, either by others or even by yourself.

Are you sure you want to do that?

Why do you think you’re different?

Wouldn’t it be so much easier if you did what everyone else does?

And you’ll continuously have to answer these questions.

Being the one that wants to be different, the misfit, the oddball, is easy to say but extremely difficult to do. Difficult, but not impossible.

The great thing is that you get to make the choice to follow or not follow the crowd many times throughout your life. As long as you’re being true to yourself about the kind of person you want to be, then ultimately, it doesn’t really matter if there’s a crowd or no crowd.

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Why did you look at me like that?

Why did you make that face?

Why did you use that tone?

If you’ve asked any of the previous questions, you might be playing emotional Rorschach. There might not have been a face, a look, or a tone, and there’s a chance you misinterpreted what you heard or saw.

The Rorschach test, also known as the inkblot test, was a projective psychological test created in 1921. It was designed to test an individual’s perceptions of inkblots on a piece of paper. The keyword in the description of the test is ‘projective.’

“The underlying assumption is that an individual will class external stimuli based on person-specific perceptual sets, and including needs, base motives, conflicts, and that this clustering process is representative of the process used in real-life situations.”

Essentially, it says you will see and experience situations based on your personal history. You will, for lack of a better word, project and ultimately derive meaning from a situation based on your past. So, there is a chance that you misread the situation.

Maybe the look meant nothing. Maybe there was no underlying agenda. It could just be in your mind.

Now, obviously, like so much in life, there are a lot of grey areas, and you’re probably not always mistaken when assessing a situation. But what if sometimes you are?

Holding back judgment or giving an individual the benefit of the doubt is a great way to prevent jumping to conclusions about what someone did or said towards you.

One of the interesting things researchers found when administering the test is that cultural backgrounds and prior experiences influenced what people saw in the inkblots. And since we all have some unique aspects of our individual experiences and history, it means we all experience the world differently.

So the next time you find yourself wondering what someone meant by the look on their face or something they said that’s got you a little flustered, think about the emotional Rorschach. It might be a combination of your imagination and projection leading you to a false conclusion.

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How often do you find yourself behind the eight ball?

One definition of being behind the eight ball is feeling behind on tasks – feeling a sense of overwhelm.

In today’s always-on world, it’s easy to get caught up in the number of incoming requests for your time and your to-dos—so much so that you’re often left feeling you’re continuously behind the eight ball.

The phrase, behind the eight-ball, originated from the game of pool. It’s the inability to take a clear shot because the cue ball is stuck behind the eight ball. The difference between playing pool and life is that in pool your opponent is usually the one trying to position you behind the eight ball, whereas in life there’s a high chance that you’re doing it to yourself.

I’m not saying that you don’t have a legitimate and endless list of tasks; I am suggesting that there may be times when you’ve taken on just a little too much.  And that’s when you get the feeling of being behind the eight ball.

So how do you get out from behind the eight ball?

Well, there are always things that you could consider removing from your list. But for the sake of argument, let’s say that you can’t. Then what can you do?

What if you pause for a moment? That’s what pool players do. They step back from the table to assess their situation in order to find their next best shot. They pause just long enough to get out from behind the eight ball. Getting out from behind the eight ball does not guarantee they will win the game, but it allows them to continue playing.

What could be your version of a pause?

Your pause could be stepping away for a few seconds to take a deep breath, or it could be pausing for minutes or even days, depending on the importance of the request or task at hand. It could even be re-prioritizing your list and, in some cases, totally eliminating some of your things to do.

I am not suggesting that you abdicate your responsibilities. I am saying that so much of the sense of being overwhelmed results from taking on too much or giving away too much of your attention and time. And the equation of giving away too much while taking on additional will never leave you in the positive; it will always leave you feeling as though you’re behind the eight ball.

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How do you show mutual respect?

It’s easy to have mutual respect with someone that agrees with you or you agree with; the challenge is to respect someone with opposing viewpoints.

One of the dangers of not having mutual respect is that you’re not open to hearing viewpoints contradicting your thoughts. Respecting an individual’s right to voice their opinions and thoughts without pre-judging them is the only way to move a conversation or idea forward.

Allowing yourself to have mutual respect for someone you disagree with says more about you than the other person. When you can be open to new ideas without rushing to defend your existing position, it displays a high level of self-confidence. Not confidence in a hubristic fashion, but rather a comfort with who you are and courage to engage other people’s ideas.

It’s been said that respect is not just the absence of negative behavior, but the presence of positive behaviors. This means taking an active stance to being curious, engaging, and open to others, the position that their input is worthy of your consideration.

Mutual respect can be difficult to cultivate because it can feel threatening. When someone has an opposing opinion, it’s natural to feel as though you’re being attacked, and in some ways you are. Your ideas and thoughts are being challenged and since they are directly tied to your identity, you protect yourself.

But if you can learn to be vulnerable just for a moment -not surrender – but see the other person as you want them to see you, then you have taken the first step towards mutual respect. Now there’s an opening, an opportunity to engage in new conversations, ideas and issues.

If we don’t develop and practice mutual respect, we are ultimately destined for mutual destruction.

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What’s the latest new gadget?

What’s in vogue right now?

What’s trending?

Whatever it is that’s trending will soon be ending.

It’s only a matter of time.

It could be hours, days, or weeks, but whatever is in will soon be out.

What will you do then?

When all you’re left with is stuff that’s out?

What will you do when the new wears off?

When will you decide to step off the trend mill?

I’m going to let you into a little secret about trends.

It’s not the trend you’re after. It’s the feeling that being a part of the trend gives you.

You want to feel like you’re ‘in, hip, in the know.’

You want to look and feel like the people representing the trend.

But you forget that they get paid to make you feel that way.

Because of technology, trends are now cycling through at breakneck speed. As soon as a trend is launched or catches on, there’s another one right behind it. In fact, there are teams of individuals working on what will be ‘trendy’ ten years from now. They’re designing clothes, color pallets, cars, and all kinds of items that will become the next trend.

Yes, many of the trends you see are, in fact, being manufactured. And because of all the readily available data, it’s becoming easier to do so.

So, if you’re going to engage in trend-chasing, prepare for a long journey. However, you can always choose to step off or even never engage. But if you decide to stay on, remember, it’s the trend mill – Tr with no End.

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Do you agree or disagree?

I can hear your brain spinning and asking, ‘Well, it depends on the question?’

Does it?

What if there is no obvious question, just an opportunity to act?

You see, every action you take is an agreement or disagreement with the kind of person you want to be.

If you doubt me, then let me give you an example.

There are many hot topics we can choose from, but let’s make it easy and choose politics.

How many times have you heard a person strongly disagree with government policies? Yet when you ask them what action they’ve taken to change them, you’ll quickly find that they haven’t acted. 

Why is this?

Because it’s easier to talk about than to do.

When your actions are out of alignment with your thoughts, you will feel out of balance because you’re in disagreement with yourself. There’s actually a fancy term for this kind of behavior: cognitive dissonance, which literally means mental discomfort.

Narrowing the gap between how you think and act gives you a sense of harmony because you are being true to yourself. You are in agreement.

But this doesn’t mean that you’re limited to always thinking and acting the same way. You can choose to think differently about something, but you must follow it with action because that is how you’ll agree or become aligned with your new thought.

So, the next time you have a thought or idea about how you’d like to be, do something differently or change a current behavior – enforce and validate it with an action. Close the gap between the person you want to be and the person you are. Be in agreement with the person you want be.

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Are you a lifesaver?

No.

Not the fruity candy with a hole in the middle.

But more like the circular flotation device you find hanging on boats and at pools.

I think you’re a lifesaver. You just aren’t aware of it.

Yes, you have the power to save a life.

Okay. Let’s get the obvious ones out of the way. Both calling 911 in the event of an emergency and performing CPR are lifesaving activities you can do with relative ease.

But what about the simple acts you can perform on a daily basis where the outcome might not be as obvious?

You can acknowledge a server at a restaurant or a customer service person at a store and let them know they are appreciated.

Reach out to a friend or someone you haven’t spoken to in a while to remind them that someone is thinking of them.

Send a thank you note to someone who positively impacted your life.

These acts might seem trivial by themselves, but little acts of kindness make the most significant impact over time.

There have been many stories of individuals whose lives were dramatically changed just because someone cared enough to ask them how they were doing.

Lastly, like the lifesaver, you have arms that can make a perfect ring. The power of a good hug is a miracle in itself.

For a split second, you feel another person’s heartbeat and realize it feels and sounds like your own. What’s keeping them alive is keeping you alive, too. 

Ultimately, recognize that we all can be lifesavers for each other.

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What is your personal reward system?

What do you do – or say to yourself when you catch yourself doing things well?

How do you reinforce your own good behavior?

Positive reinforcement works just as well with people as it does with animals.

Most people are good at beating themselves up when they make a mistake, but they don’t make an effort or take the time to reward themselves for good actions or behaviors.

I’m not saying throw an all-out celebration every time you do something well, although you can if that’s what you want. What I am suggesting is you take a moment to recognize and reward yourself with some positive self-talk,  a virtual pat on your back.

It’s very easy only to notice your faults because they stand out as reminders that no matter how hard you might try, you’re not perfect. Whereas praising yourself for small accomplishments and wins might seem childish, or inconsequential because you expect yourself to get things right.

There is also a deeper underlying reason why many people don’t praise themselves, which comes down to their own self-worth. They don’t feel worthy of praise for unexplored or unknown reasons, and this can be very difficult, although not impossible, to overcome.

Your self-reward system doesn’t have to be super indulgent. It can be something as simple as a few kind words to yourself, just as a reminder that you did something well. For example, when you see athletes perform a fist pump, that’s a reward to remind them of a positive moment.

A self-reward system doesn’t only serve to continue current good behavior; it can also be an effective way to create behavior change and implement new habits into your life.

Start rewarding yourself when you feel you’ve done something well or right, and you’ll find yourself doing it more often. You have the ability to create positive, upward behavior cycles just as easily as negative ones. If you get into the habit of catching and rewarding yourself for being good, then over time, you might be able to forget or eliminate being bad.

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How do you handle your self-doubt?

If you constantly wonder if you’re doing the right thing, don’t worry—you’re not alone.

Self-doubt is as common as breathing. Even the most seasoned individuals and experts in their fields still experience self-doubt.

Self-doubt will, at some point, show up in your life. Whether in education, relationships, career choices, parenting, or even something as simple as what you should wear, self-doubt will appear.

In fact, as I’m writing this, I can feel self-doubt peering over my shoulder, shaking its head side to side, and asking me if this is really what I should be writing about. And I have to give it my honest answer; I don’t know, but I’m going to do it anyway.

Self-doubt has the power to stop people dead in their tracks. It’s what you witness when you see a person walk up to the edge of a diving board and decide not to jump. And when self-doubt shows up, it doesn’t come alone; it brings its friend, fear. Together, they team up against you.

Self-doubt never really goes away; it’s insidious, just waiting quietly in the wings waiting to make its next appearance. And every time it does, you must decide how long to let it perform before sending it off stage.

You have to choose how much control you’ll give your self-doubt and how much of your life you’ll let it drive. If you let it, it will control every decision you make, and your entire life will be on its terms. And that’s no way to live.

A key step in coping with self-doubt is learning to accept it as part of life. Once you accept it, you can develop tools and strategies to manage it.

Remember, self-doubt is an emotion as old as time and was designed to keep you safe and alive. But now that you’re safe and alive don’t let it dictate who you will be, and don’t hide in its shadow. We want to see you take center stage and perform, not your self-doubt.

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Do you know what you’ll have after today?

After today, you’ll have one day less.

You’ll have one day less to pursue your dreams and goals.

You’ll have one day less to spend time with the people you love.

You’ll have one day less to tell them that you love them.

You’ll have one day less to remind yourself just how lucky you were to be here.

You’ll have one day less to be you.

Life is one big subtracting machine, and each day that goes by gives you one day less. Although your age increases, you can’t add days to your life; you can, however, add life to your days.

As the old cliché goes, ‘Today is a gift, and that’s why it’s called the present.’ And like many clichés, there’s some truth to it. However, the gift you’re given each day cannot be collected or stored; it must actually it will be spent whether you want to or not.

So what will you do with your gift of today?

What will you do to add life to your days?

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Heads, I win; tails, you lose.

How do you like that deal?

Does it work for you?

It works for me.

I love being right and winning every time.

How about you?

The temptation to always be right is so alluring that the cost associated with it is often forgotten. And you incorrectly think that the other person has lost, but you, too, have incurred a loss. You just haven’t experienced it yet.

Buried deep down in human nature is the need for survival, which is inextricably tied to the desire to defend ourselves. This need can also manifest itself in the need to be right.

But it can come at a cost.

All relationships begin as fragile structures, and if individuals consistently feel like they need to defend themselves, then cracks will begin to form.

Best-selling author Eckhart Tolle describes the need to be right “as a form of violence. At its mildest, it is inflexibility. At its height, it manifests as dominance. The compulsion to inflict our opinions of the world on another originates in fear. Its opposites are humility and compassion.”

Walking away from an argument or conceding to being wrong is extremely difficult to do, but it is possible.

There’s a great question you can ask yourself.

Would you rather be happy or would you rather be right?

Obviously, like any other tool, this question will not work every time. But if nothing else, if the question gives you the opportunity to pause for a moment and evaluate the situation at hand – it has done its job.

Heads I win, tails you lose might seem attractive at first glance, but the problem is that the person you’re playing with will eventually catch on and will no longer want to engage in your game.  Learning to occasionally concede in relationships doesn’t make you a loser; it gives you the opportunity to play again.

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What are your thoughts about IFTTT?

I apologize. First, let me explain what IFTTT stands for.

If This, Then That.

In the world of software development, IFTT is a conditional statement, and there are tools that help developers automate conditional actions.

What are your default conditional actions and statements?

We all have a set of automated reactions and responses that guide us through our day because it would be exhausting to make decisions about each situation as it arises.

However, the challenge occurs when your automated responses begin to cause problems. When your internal IFTTT statements no longer provide the outcomes you’re seeking.

When your IFTTT statements have, in fact, become your habits.

The good news is that you, too, can change your IFTTT statements, just like the software developer.

You can choose any of the following statements or even create your own.

If this, then what?

If this, then maybe.

Or even a firm. If this is the case, then no.

The ‘if’ is the trigger that sets your conditional statements.

You have the power to change your IFTTT statements. If you pay attention, you’ll quickly learn that the ‘if’ is your first opportunity to edit how you will respond to external and internal triggers.

Remember, conditional statements are just that, conditional statements. They are only permanent if you want them to be.

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