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What You Can Learn From A JACK NICHOLSON Quote IN THE DEPARTED TO WIN YOUR Day.
Wherever you are, I hope that you make an awesome day because no matter the obstacles in front of you, every day is an opportunity for you to win the day. Today, we’ll start with my favorite quote that says, “I am not a product of my environment, but my environment is a product of me.” We get to realize that you are not constrained by your circumstances in your life. You get to choose every single day and make those decisions that affect where you are in life. In nature, if you think about it, a tree, it will only grow so big if you have it planted in a pot. But if you take that tree out of that pot and put it in nature, it can grow up to the sky. The opportunities are endless.
The problem isn’t the tree, but its environment. But if you replant it outside, it can battle the elements and grow and notice how I said it can battle the elements. It’s not constrained by the elements. That’s what you have to realize that those little mindset shifts are the things that make a difference in your day and are the opportunities that you get. If you say the opportunity to battle the elements, it’s a mindset shift, instead of saying, I have to be constrained by the elements. But when you view growth as something you get to do, instead of something you have to go through, it completely changes the way you see things. I mean…