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Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.

Steve Pavlina

Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.
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Being Inspirational Love Passion
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
Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
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Compass Enemy Needs
Realize that you earn income by providing value – not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.
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Income Time Work
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
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Goal Meaningful Thought Provoking
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
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
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
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Falling In Love Goal Hard Work
By all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
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Advice Mean People
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
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It’s perfectly OK to want the impossible. It’s not OK to pretend that your desires don’t matter.
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Desire Provoking Thought Want
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
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are – by definition – abusive relationships. You’ll be much better off when you let them go.
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Definition Provoking Rejects Thought
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
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Courageous People Stills
When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn’t, it’s still a more interesting path than being nothing.
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Boundary Capabilities Eventually Right
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

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