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Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it

Steve Pavlina

If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
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Answers Asking Trying
It’s been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I’ve found this to be very true in my own life. If I’m lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.
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Firsts Lazy Wake Up
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
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
You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
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Free Tableled Untamable
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
In fact, it’s a safe bet that you’ll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won’t allow yourself to receive what you don’t feel you’ve earned. To receive life’s bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it.
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Allow Fact Receive Subconsciously
Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
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Action Proper replace Want
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Action Motivation Secret
For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
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Break Habit Inspirational Make
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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Discovering Grows Reality
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
The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.
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Grows Intelligent
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 experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
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Reality Roots Strong
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
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
You must give before you can get.
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Before Get Giving
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 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
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
To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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Abandon Fulfilling Lifestyle
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
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
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
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
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

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