It’s better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you’re not. ”

In a world today where we’re constantly at the mercy of other peoples needs and opinions; whether it be our family, peers, the media, or society. It can be frustrating trying to figure out who we really are, and what we should do with our lives. My purpose is to help you uncover every last drop of that person; 'cuz chances are, there’s too much awesome, gorgeous, and bloody brilliant buried under there for you to just put on a face and follow the crowd. The world needs people like you, so quit holding out on us ;)
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How to be happy: Self Awareness

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Chapter 1: Defining Happiness
Chapter 2: Self Awareness
Chapter 3: Making Time (Coming Soon!)
Chapter 4: External Awareness
Chapter 5: Finding Passion
Chapter 6: Staying True to Yourself
Chapter 7: Discipline & Perseverance
Chapter 8: Courage
Chapter 9: Bringing it all Together

Woohoo! Congrats on making it to chapter two, I’m impressed. That was quite the rant to get through, and to be wanting more is awesome AWESOME. I’m sure you noticed it was quite a long read, and maybe you’re hoping the rest of the chapters are shorter. The bad news is that when this stuff is given in a short, condensed manner – it really isn’t very helpful. You’ve probably read a few of those of articles, the ones that have a catchy title and a few dot points. While they do serve their purpose by being accessible and making it easy for people to discover self improvement; they only tell you what you need to do, and not how to do it. So I’m sorry to say that all the bootcamp articles will be rather long; this one in particular because self awareness is probably the single most important step to getting started. The good news is that you’ve swallowed one chapter already and came back kicking and punching – let’s knock down a few more. No sweat right? ;)

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How to be happy: Defining Happiness

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Chapter 1: Defining Happiness
Chapter 2: Self Awareness
Chapter 3: Making Time (Coming Soon!)
Chapter 4: External Awareness
Chapter 5: Finding Passion
Chapter 6: Staying True to Yourself
Chapter 7: Discipline & Perseverance
Chapter 8: Courage
Chapter 9: Bringing it all Together

So you keep hearing about this thing called happiness. You hear people throw it around like it’s some kind of golden bunny, where if you’re lucky enough to catch it, will poop out golden eggs for you and summon down rainbows and butterflies, changing your life to resemble the ending of a romantic comedy. It keeps showing up in movies, as the subject of songs, and in those annoying philosophical quotes people keep posting on facebook. Every so often it’ll present itself in human form, prancing around like a child – laughing and smiling. Maybe you resent this person, maybe they annoy you, maybe you think they’re naive and ignorant and childish – but secretly you wonder how they managed to catch that fuckin’ bunny.

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First.

May 31, 2012

First.

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New beginnings. May 31st, 2012. 6:37am. I feel… like this.

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