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Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

Steve Pavlina

Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees is crazy).
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Business Crazy Gun
It’s been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I’ve found this to be very true in my own life. If I’m lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.
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Firsts Lazy Wake Up
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Action Motivation Secret
If you want to experience abundance, then don’t choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.
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Choices Jobs Path
I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.
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Best Friendship Tests Thinking
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
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Goal Meaningful Thought Provoking
If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
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Reality Roots Strong
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
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Creating Value People
I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.
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Coins Joy Two Sides
One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.
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Belief Choices Free Will
Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don’t foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall… except the one in China.
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Business Formality Loyal Wall
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.
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Hard Work Purpose Strong
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
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Believe Goal Principles
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
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Believe Events Want
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.
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Football Hands Passion Tremendous
In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you’ll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren’t regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.
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Automatically Exercising Kind Strengthening

Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

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Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

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