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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.

Steve Pavlina

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.
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Grows Intelligent
It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
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Funny Jobs Mean
Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it’s a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don’t know what will happen until you try.
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Dream Trying Way
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
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Believe Goal Principles
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
The universe cannot show you anything which you’ve intentionally chosen to block from your reality.
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Block Reality Shows
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
If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
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Answers Asking Trying
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
Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says … somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?
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People Strong Thought Provoking
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
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Action Motivation Secret
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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Discovering Grows Reality
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
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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Growth Sacrifice Worthless
To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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Abandon Fulfilling Lifestyle

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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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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