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Steve Pavlina

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
If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.
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Best Career Outlet Serious Upgrade
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
For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
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Break Habit Inspirational Make
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
It’s a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won’t commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange.
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Believe Character Thinking
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
Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
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Adventure Daring Life Is
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
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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Growth Sacrifice Worthless
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
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
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
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
The universe cannot show you anything which you’ve intentionally chosen to block from your reality.
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Block Reality Shows
Network selectively. Nothing says “business newbie” like shotgun networking. “You never know when someone might say yes” is marketing for dummies.
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Business Marketing Pulse
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
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
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Courageous People Stills
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
You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
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Free Tableled Untamable
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
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
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
You must give before you can get.
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Before Get Giving
Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
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Action Proper replace Want
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

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