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I've Mark TWAIN. I've been somewhat of a self improvement junkie for the last few years of red, dozens of books, meditated journals and worked on my finances develop morning, routine, starting at five, a m and sought to deepen my prayer, I learned a lot about my strengths and weaknesses along the way and I've been able to measurably improve my life in a number of areas, but more recently, I've been working on self acceptance and contentment of welcome messages like perfectly imperfect and the exhortation to love myself, not despite my flaws, but with my flaws and, I must admit I am torn between these two impulses: the impulse to improve versus the impulse to excess, on the one hand, though, improving is good when I'm in this mode of you Look I'm running away from myself and toward a version of myself that is unattainable, the pursuit of and feels never ending and exhausting. On the other hand, acceptance in content

pain feel like failure and mediocrity. Why should I be content with my life today when it could be so much better? Be you only better there's a book currently topping the charts on Amazon called the best self. Be you only better is written by celebrity life. Coach might bear unheard of coach MIKE until I ran into this book on a recent trip to be just as the title immediately caught my attention, especially the subtitle. Be you only better. This captures the central and compelling promise the self improvement movement every year were told that we can be even better than we were the year before in the past. I would pick up a book like this and quickly browser the weather was worth downloading. The audio version on my audible account. Instead, I just looked at it and said to myself now I'm good as our fight yo my reaction, I thought it was quite telling something had clearly shifted in me over time. I have no idea what

in the book. It might have some amazing inside of never thought of, were encountered before. That might actually allow me to achieve by best self it might express an older in a way that finally connects us grown so tired, chasing down magic bullets and pills that I just in care. I was happy just to be myself, even if it wasn't the best version, the under achievers manifesto. Send visit to my therapist another catchy title caught my eye, the under achievers manifesto, the guide to accomplishing little and feeling great. It's a oh, but only about ninety pages long, they can be read in as little thirty minutes in the past. I would have avoided a book like this, but that day I was entreat so borrowed it written by re. Bennett. Empty is meant for type a personalities who need to take a break from achieving in succeeding so they can regain their sanity does not go to success.

you're not seen enough to enjoy it in it. He lays out ten principles of under achievement. They are life's too shy Port control is an illusion. Expectations led to misery. Great expectations led to great misery, achievement, trees, expectations, the law of diminishing returns applies everywhere. Perfect is the enemy of good. The Taos blade of grass is the surest to be cut Accomplishment is in the eye of the beholder and the four percent value added principle. These principles are mostly self explanatory. The last one pertains to the fact that the genetic similarity between humans and chimpanzees stands at six percent. Yet we seem to work a lot harder to prove our work as we have politically somewhere to many other living things, not to mention each other. That stands at ninety nine point. Nine percent Bennett concludes that be

alive at all is by far your greatest achievement. He's was funny about that incite. We can't even claim it as our group achievement because none of us brought ourselves into the world neither We run the gazillion complex processes in our bodies. I keep us alive. Thank God can get much more under achieving than that. How many books have you read in the past year. One of the things that personal achievement gurus uses a metric for personal achievement. Is this how many books he read? because somewhere along the way, someone discovered it as a common trade among the goober successful they'll gazes reported read about fifty bucks per year, Mere morals read about foreign twelve books a year, I've always loved books and reading. I didn't realize it was under a even at this until I was exposed to the reading metrics of high achievers. So I was Or to read more books soon already more than twelve books a year, never mind that most of them were audio books on my

Way to reading like a rock star. I implicitly believed that the closer I could get the bill gates level. Reading the more likely I was to achieve worldly success, I've since relaxed on that ambition. but then I noticed that my wife was ramping up her reading and doing awesome book reviews on her blog. I just happen to ask her in passing how many books did you read this year? Her answer blew me away. Forty five keeping my most of these were not audiobooks to read them the old fashioned way eyeballs on paper, the certainly approaching bill gates level reading, but factor in the idea that she's, a the working more with seven kids in all this and bills. Fifty seem to pale in comparison with her. Forty five, if you check I wish, is red you'll see that is not all personal development books. There are fiction books, marriage books, books, educational books and friends books too, I should say that my reading list was narrower in scope. The amazing thing about this is that she was not

their boasting about how many books, she's red she just reads, writes about what she's learned and tries to put the principal she's learned into practice. I didn't keep track of how many books I read in twenty eighteen, but I'm almost sure it was less than twelve. I felt like an underachiever and although K with that, but looking back, I was ashamed as affair. That I increase the number of books I read a year or so I could feel better about myself relative to others. Important that I read more books in the average person, so I wouldn't be average myself. How sad be you not better to achieve impulse? Towser me from the time, but more more. I find myself say now: I'm good get a phd good by a fancy car. I'm good have another kid. No good, no debts,

Kids reference earlier, maybe someday I'll, be more motivated to do these and much more. But today I am happy to just be me being me and not better, never felt so good.

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