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“Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.”

“If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.”

“In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.”

Age Middle Example Behavior Yoga Stress Embrace Middle Ages Reducing

Author:James Redford

“We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe. Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes.”

People Feelings Choices Energy Ability Silence Behavior Stress Response Vampire Stressed Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Judith Orloff

“This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted”

May Feelings Girl Periods Behavior Stress Extremes Interrupted Numbness Aries Girl Interrupted Depersonalization

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress.”

Giving Humans Heart Causes Growth Grief Amount Behavior Stress Block Internals Pockets Bizarre Unfinished Deposits Unexplained

Author:Robert Kavanaugh

“True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior. The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior. Preoccupation with unworthy behavior can lead to unworthy behavior. That is why we stress so forcefully the study of the doctrines of the gospel.”

Attitude Study Behavior Understood Stress Doctrine Unworthy Preoccupation

Book:The shield of faith

Source: The shield of faith

“Shamans can be defined as socially sanctioned practitioners who purport to voluntarily regulate their attention and awareness so as to access information not ordinarily available, using it to facilitate appropriate behavior and healthy development - as well as to alleviate stress and sickness - among members of their community and/or for the community as a whole.”

“Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems”

Humans Problem Seems Economic Periods Behavior Stress Environmental Dues Severe Human Behavior Entering Environmental Problems

Author:Cyril Connolly

“A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain”

May Hurt Brain Psychology Effects Shapes Behavior Stress Addiction Wounds Ache Adverse Neurobiology

Author:Gabor Mate

“Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.”

Inspire Health Behavior Stress Debt

Author:Seth Godin

“No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.”

Years Humans Stills Matter Body Running Certain Fighting Human Beings Violence Amount Behavior Years Ago Stress Violent Civilized Territory Genes Civilized Behavior Jaguars

Author:Joe Rogan

“Every day, from the moment we wake up, we are faced with choices … One aspect of this is decision fatigue. Making decisions, big or small, uses mental energy, and as you make more choices your cognitive resources get depleted.”

Psychology Behavior Stress Productivity Well Being Self Regulation Paradox Of Choice Cognitive Load Choice Overload Decision Fatigue

Book:The Council of Gods

Source: The Council of Gods