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I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.

Steve Pavlina

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
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Break Habit Inspirational Make
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
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Belief Curiosity Practicals
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
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
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
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
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
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 you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
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Answers Asking Trying

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