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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.

Steve Pavlina

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
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
To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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Abandon Fulfilling Lifestyle
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
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
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Achievement People Years
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
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
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
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
Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully.
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Reality Spiritual Strong
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
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
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Action Motivation Secret
It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog – you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.
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Ambition Funny Thoughtful
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

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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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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