322: Sybil Chavis Lets You Know that Waiting Is Over

Have you been waiting on something to show up in your life for awhile? Maybe you’ve been working to accomplish something and you’re so ready for things to fall into place. Or, maybe you’ve been working through problem after problem and you really want things to finally work out.

Many of us (myself definitely included) have been managing through a “season of waiting”. Do you feel likeit’s been a long road? I know I do. Of course it’s been worthwhile and an important part of our journey. I get that and I definitely appreciate the fact that everything really does happen for a reason.

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320: Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus - On Advertising

Modern-day advertisers are nothing but aggregators of eyeballs. They get paid to encourage you to take action. What’s the best way to make you act? To highlight your problems of course: to make you think you are inadequate, to showcase your perpetual discontent and then offer a solution from the entrapment of your self-invented restless dissatisfaction.

Just turn on your television, switch on your radio, open your newspapers and magazines, and click the banner ad tailored to your specific needs, tastes, and desires. See, you have scores of problems. You are anxious, tired, stressed, worried, overwhelmed, underpaid, overworked, undervalued, overweight, depressed, too old, too fat, too thin. Your scrawny muscles aren’t big enough, your flabby stomach isn’t washboard enough, your wrinkled face isn’t young enough.

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