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If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.

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Steve Pavlina
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 14
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If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.
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Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.
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Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
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Whatever happens to me during the course of my life - physically, socially, or financially - I can always choose to focus on giving. When I'm in that state, nothing else matters. I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.
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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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We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.
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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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The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.
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