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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.

Steve Pavlina

Do what you love, but be damned sure it’s profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn’t generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail… and your business along with it.
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Business Hate Passion
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
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
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
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
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
In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you’ll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren’t regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.
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Automatically Exercising Kind Strengthening
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
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
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Belief Curiosity Practicals
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
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
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being.
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Challenges Thinking Waiting
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
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
The more you’re able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.
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Connection Explore Greater More Something

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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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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