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Every day we\\u2019re barraged by \\u201cgood ideas\\u201d\\u2014all the things we should be doing with our lives and could start doing today if we really cared enough. Too much advice can overwhelm us, and, more importantly, it can inflate the power of \\u201cshould.\\u201d It can cement an insidious (and, in my experience, ineffective) framework in our minds. We risk framing\\xa0every choice\\u2014from work to pleasure\\u2014as an obligation. Doing so burdens life with a constant sense of onus, constraint and deprivation\\u2014not exactly the stuff of grand motivation.\\xa0In my experience, we aren\\u2019t in for much fun or long-term success with that brand of approach. Luckily, there\\u2019s a better way to talk to ourselves.