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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.

Steve Pavlina

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
You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
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Free Tableled Untamable
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
Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
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Compass Enemy Needs
Risk the stuff. It’s worthless anyway. But don’t make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
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Choices Sacrifice Thought Provoking
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
You must give before you can get.
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Before Get Giving
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
Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees is crazy).
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Business Crazy Gun
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
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
Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously.
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Adventure Dream Monday
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
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
I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.
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Best Friendship Tests Thinking
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 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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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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