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The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Steve Pavlina

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
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
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
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
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
The exact process you use to build courage isn’t important. What’s important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don’t regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don’t consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears.
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Exercise Fear Stress
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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Discovering Grows Reality
If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
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Answers Asking Trying
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
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Goal Meaningful Thought Provoking
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
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
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Action Motivation Secret
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
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are – by definition – abusive relationships. You’ll be much better off when you let them go.
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Definition Provoking Rejects Thought
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being.
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Challenges Thinking Waiting
Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully.
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Reality Spiritual Strong
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 want to experience abundance, then don’t choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.
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Choices Jobs Path
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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Growth Sacrifice Worthless
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.
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Football Hands Passion Tremendous
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
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
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
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
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
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

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