Set life goals, five year goals, and one year goals to design your life and guide your behaviors. Rewrite your goal lists repeatedly to keep your goals present in your mind instead of forgotten most of the time.

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Use gratitude lists to appreciate the large and small aspects of your life, and to become happier by diminishing the influence on your mind of  all of the negative feelings that want to run the show.

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Success of course means different things to different people, and it is very important that you take time thinking about what it means to you. I'll talk about success in two ways: 1) With the straightforward, practical meaning of setting goals and achieving them. 2) With the higher meaning of designing your life and working toward your potential. 

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Learn the two types of happiness that psychologists talk about, several important errors people make when they think about happiness, and key ideas to keep in mind as you do this work (like remembering that our goal is to reduce how much time we spend in the grip of unhappy emotions).

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Why have I created this podcast? Where did the ideas come from? Why is it for and from the incompetent? Get answers to these questions and learn the most important rule: past failures don't determine your future. I'll discuss the goal of persistent progress as opposed to an endpoint. I'll explain what I call the mantra: you matter, this work matters, and you can do this work.

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