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EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE
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The Root of Joe's Dilemma
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Imagine standing in the middle of a superhighway.
Not a car in sight, not a soul around. Just you and the highway.
It turns out that this highway was your creation. From a small child until the present day you have been adding more and more concrete, more and more support to your highway ensuring nothing would break it down.
Back and forth you have driven on your highway without a snag.
After you tire of the same old pattern, you want to exit.
But there are no exits.
This is how you and everyone else in the world operates. We build habits, or highways, from early on and find it nearly impossible to exit after the ride becomes tiresome.
Joe was stuck on a highway he created, and he simply couldn't exit. The years and years of conditioning and routine were too strong to break. His highway was sturdy and stubborn, and exiting was out of the question.
In essence, Joe was trapped in a prison he created. And if you have ever struggled with personal change, the same it true of you. You cannot simply exit your habit. It is too powerful, too well built.
This principle leads us to the main message of today's newsletter: Don't beat yourself up over your inability to exit your habit! If you don't follow the keys of motivation, you have no other choice but to return to your old ways.
You cannot simply think your way to change. So if you've tried it and failed, stop tearing yourself down because of it. You were fighting a giant with a toothpick - a hopeless battle.
To create a change that sticks, you must use a different set of tools to make it happen.
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How to Exit Your Highway of Habits
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All of the frustration, anger, depression, and unhappiness that results from people trying and failing to create a lasting change is unnecessary. If you use the right tools and stop trying to think your way to change, you will get what you want.
Each week's newsletter offers a new tool to succeed in changing your life, but if you would like the entire system of change in one complete guide, you may want to learn more about The Motivated Mind.
This is a complete, step-by-step guide to personal change.
You will learn the six keys to motivation and no longer struggle with the headaches and heartaches that so often accompany the process of change and improvement.
To learn more about The Motivated Mind and how its over 350 pages can help you get what you want, visit the address below:
http://www.motivation123.com/tmm-ez03.html
Jason M. Gracia
Founder and President
CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS
June 30: Singer Lena Horne is 89. Actor David Alan Grier is 51. "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino is 22.
July 1: Actor Andre Braugher ("Homicide") is 44. Actor Henry Simmons ("NYPD Blue") is 36. Rapper Missy Elliott is 35.
July 2: Troy Brown, NFL wide receiver (NE Patriots) is 35.
WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
TriCom provides a weekly podcast that includes the latest book news, insightful one-on-one interviews with your favorite literary personalities, and monthly bookclub Q&A sessions with the authors themselves. Get it here: www.authorsinyourpocket.com/.
Submit your favorite website to us along with a 15-20 word (or less) description to info@eurweb.com.
BLACK HISTORY
June 30, 1847: Dred Scott, a slave, filed suit in the St. Louis Circuit Court claiming that his temporary residence in a free territory should have made him a free man. Scott would lose the case.
July 2, 1777: Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery.
July 3, 1953: Harry Belafonte was shown with actress Janet Leigh and film star Tony Curtis on the cover of Ebony magazine. It was the first time a black person and two Caucasians were seen together on a U.S. magazine cover. (source: www.BlackFacts.com)