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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

So what kind of a day are you going to have today?

You know, you can decide that answer right now.

You are always in complete control of your day, no matter what happens.

Today, you can be as happy, productive, and as joyful as you want to be.

You are always as happy, productive, and joyful as you want to be.

A lot of times, we're the ones making ourselves unhappy. You can't

change the traffic, the weather, or how others treat you. If your happiness, your state of mind

is based on how others treat you or how things go your way or not, you will live a life

of constant frustration and certainly not be happily ever after. Instead, you have to decide

ahead of time what type of day you're going to have and no matter what, respond accordingly.

I read this crazy study which goes on to prove the power of the mind, the power of making a decision

about how you're going to think and how you're going to feel. The study was done

on people who needed arthroscopic knee surgery. Their knees had been worn down and they needed

the joint to be cleaned out. We are not talking about master of repair, just the cleaning to

address their chronic pain. On some of the patients, the doctors received family permission to

only pretend to do the surgery as part of the study. Instead of actually cleaning out the knee

and performing the full surgery, they simply put the patient under anesthesia and made three

tiny incisions around the knee as if they had performed the full surgery. When those patients woke up, they thought the full surgery had been performed.

Now, what's interesting is two years after the quote unquote surgery, the patients who had the fake surgery reported just as much relief from the pain as the patients who actually went through the surgery.

Now, you may think that the patients who actually went through the surgery.

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