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Seven societal lies you need to challenge today so you can be instantly free of that heavy feeling and live the life you want
Do you ever feel like you’re carrying an invisible weight you can’t describe?
I made mistakes over the years, but I also learned a lot of my dissatisfaction came not from my actions but from the insidious societal lies piped into our skulls from birth.
These falsehoods are designed to ensure we conform so we are easy to control. This stifles our potential and joy.
Here are nine lies to be aware of today. You can’t be free if you don’t know what’s holding you back:
1. Success equals financial wealth.
It’s easy to believe that the more money we have, the more successful we are.
Money certainly brings security and options, but many of us take this too far. We’re like crazed tuna hell-bent on taking a bite out of that chunk of squid on a hook.
Money helps, but what if the definition of success changed?
What if how we defined success wasn’t down to some old guy in a dusty government office?
What if it was down to you?
What if the real success was staying as healthy as possible, living simply, having time for hobbies, and more experiences that challenged you?
2. Work harder to achieve more.
Once you learn new ways to create leverage in your work, you’ll see how silly it is to equate working more with achieving more.
For example, why do we work eight hours a day, fifty weeks per year, when we’re twice as productive as we were twenty years ago?
Focus more on following a better strategy (macro), outsource the stuff you don’t need to do, and you’ll create more with less.
For many, this takes awareness and getting past the initial weirdness of being able to work less for the same results, but it’s there for the taking.
