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Don’t let anyone be the puppet master of your life! People, and life in general, love to exploit your weaknesses. It makes people feel better about themselves. By people doing this, it makes you only focus on all of the negative things going on in your life. Once you become closed-minded to the possibilities, you begin to develop a gloom and doom outlook towards life. I knew this outlook all too well. I allowed life and people to make me think very closed-minded. When you do that, you lose focus