Welcome to Darin Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

Good morning.

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 massive 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

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