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Excerpt // Chapter 3 : Shut Up and Stop Complaining
“My depression hung over me — this voluminous, bulbous cloud that wouldn’t let the sunshine through.
I gained weight. I lost friends. I was miserable. Every thought ended up turning into a negative one. But what he said was true. It’s all in your control.
Jim Rohn, a dead guy, once said, “You are not a tree.” And when you hear that, you’re like, “Yes, I know I’m not a tree.” But it’s so much deeper than that. You’re not a tree. You don’t have roots. You’re not grounded. You can move. You can blossom anywhere that you’re planted.
This is something that I say to my friends all the time. I’ve had to step away from some of them because they’re so goddamn negative. I love them with all of my heart, and I would take a bullet for them, but I have a hard time being around them because everything that comes out of their mouths is so goddamn destructive. They act like they’re in a headlock and unable to change their lives, make positive movements, switch their jobs, or leave their boyfriends and find a new place to live. They have excuse after excuse after excuse…
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