Things that work: Dogs, vegetables, index funds, jogging, sleep, lists, learning to cook, drinking less alcohol, surrounding yourself with people you trust and admire.

In conclusion, if you are investing energy in growth and change out of love for yourself and others and out of the desire to express that love in beneficial ways, then not even a little effort goes to waste, as Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gītā. But if your attempts to change are based in veiled self-hatred, you might cause more harm to yourself an

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