Choose Yourself

by James Altucher

Maybe they would press the LIKE button on my face. Brilliant.

Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.

The irony is so thick I could spread it on sandwich bread if bread wasn’t so high in carbs.

Do this every day: wake up and think of five people you are grateful for in your life right now. Not people who you were grateful for in the past. And not people you hope to be grateful for in the future if they do what you want them to do. Five people RIGHT NOW. That’s all you have to do. Want to take it further? Surrender to the fact that you can’t control ALL of the events in your life. Those people you hope to be grateful for probably aren’t going to do exactly what you want them to. All you can do is the preparation. The food will taste how it will. Finally, try to label your thoughts: “future” or “past.” If you can do that, you stand a pretty good chance of remaining in the present.