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How to Not Win at Life
Germany Kent is an American print and broadcast journalist. Kent has authored ten nonfiction books including The Hope Handbook Series, best-selling written work The Hope Handbook, and the critically acclaimed book You Are What You Tweet, a national bestseller. But you don’t care about Germany, do you? You care about what she can teach you about winning (or not winning) in life.
Here are her six (non) rules:
Do the easy things in life
Between doing hard things, and doing the easy things in life, always choose the easy ones. Moving weights from one place to another? Nope, sit on the couch and binge Netflix. Pick up a book to read? Nah, let’s play video games instead. Why invest your money to spend it later, when you can spend it now?
The hard stuff can wait. You will have time to do it later. It’s not important now.
Complain
If you don’t complain, how can other people around you know who has got it worse: you or them. Of course, you have it worse than them. Your house is small. You don’t have enough money in the bank account. You are working a dead-end job with no light at the end of the tunnel. Your pants keep getting smaller, so you have to go out and buy new clothes with…
