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Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being.

Steve Pavlina

I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won’t die with my music still in me.
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May Thought Provoking Want
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
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
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
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Action Motivation Secret
To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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Abandon Fulfilling Lifestyle
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work… I’ve found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.
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Block Meaningful Needs

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