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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.

Steve Pavlina

The exact process you use to build courage isn’t important. What’s important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don’t regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don’t consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears.
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Exercise Fear Stress
If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it’s best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side.
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Mean Thinking Work
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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Discovering Grows Reality
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
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Ego Smart Work
You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
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Free Tableled Untamable
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
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
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
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
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
Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
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Adventure Daring Life Is
You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you’re going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.
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Firsts Money Responsibility
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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Growth Sacrifice Worthless
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work… I’ve found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.
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Block Meaningful Needs
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 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

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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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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