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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.

Steve Pavlina

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
For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
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Break Habit Inspirational Make
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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Fall Skills Thought Provoking
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
If you can’t do what you love and make it profitable, you’ve either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don’t settle for anything less than passion and profit.
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Passion Profit Profitable Sustainable
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
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Goal Meaningful Thought Provoking
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
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
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
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
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Belief Curiosity Practicals
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
The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.
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Grows Intelligent
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
It’s important to note that you don’t have to earn money from all of your interests. If you just dive in and pursue what you enjoy, you may be surprised to find out which interests help you generate income and which don’t.
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Important Income May
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
Everyone you meet in your life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.
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Body Cells Ideas

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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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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