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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Barbara Sher

A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Design Goal Units
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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Life Love Mean Sorrow
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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Criticism Meaningful Purpose
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Esteem Resentment Self Weak
Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
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Happiness Love Unique
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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Country Destination Horizon
What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
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Desire Information Wish
Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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Adventure Heart Love You
Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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Moving People Two
A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
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Conceited Mean Self
There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
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Dream Inspiration Inspiring
Isolation is the dream killer.
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Dream Isolation Killers
Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Becoming Healing Sometimes
Time is clay; make something.
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Clay Make Something
Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Leadership Motivation Real
Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
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Animal Esteem Good Luck Self

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