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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.

Steve Pavlina

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
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
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Action Motivation Secret
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
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
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
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
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
Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don’t foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall… except the one in China.
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Business Formality Loyal Wall
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being.
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Challenges Thinking Waiting
Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
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Action Proper replace Want
Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says … somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?
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People Strong Thought Provoking
Regardless of others’ reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.
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Choices Mirrors Provoking Thought
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
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Goal Meaningful Thought Provoking
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
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Believe Events Want

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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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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