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Your Life Is The Sum Of Your Decisions - Nerdful Mind #4

Your Life Is The Sum Of Your Decisions - Nerdful Mind #4
By Simon Mannes • Issue #4 • View online
Meditation is a journey. So is life itself.
Where we are now in our lives is determined only marginally by what we did yesterday. It is more determined by what we did a few months ago, and even more by what we did years ago.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Will Durant (not Aristotle)
If we want to change who we are, we need to change the direction we take. This direction is the result of all the small decisions we make each day.

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