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Mental Mastery

Acting with Purpose — Not Autopilot

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Hillman Lentz
Oct 16, 2025
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Autopilot is easy. It’s hitting snooze, grabbing fast food, reacting to emails like a robot. It’s doing things because that’s how you’ve always done them. The problem? Autopilot doesn’t build a life you want — it just keeps you stuck in the one you’ve got.

Purpose is different. Acting with purpose means choosing your moves, not drifting into them. It mea…

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