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Three Promises You Must Make to Yourself in Order to be Completely Happy

John Mashni
7 min readDec 4, 2017

“To me, there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think. Spend some time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think, and cry, that’s a heck of day.”

— Jim Valvano

“No regrets” is a popular saying. But how many people actually have no regrets?

Surely, we would all love a life full of happiness and joy. But sometimes we need to face the tougher parts of reality in order to learn how to truly live.

One of the best lines from the movie Braveheart is that “every man dies, but not every man truly lives.”

We need to realize that life is short.

There is a due date.

There is a deadline.

You only get so much time, and then, it’s done.

There are no do-overs or second go-rounds.

Gary Vaynerchuk talks about the most motivating words there are: You will die.

But don’t let this deter you.

This is fuel.

Pure motivation.

Do not waste your chances.

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John Mashni
John Mashni

Written by John Mashni

I only write about what I have done: no theory. Writer, Attorney, Entrepreneur, Movie Producer, and more… the ONLY 3 ways to reinvent: goo.gl/S1Lu6x

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