One of the greatest fears in life is being taken advantage of by others or perhaps even ourselves. The danger in being taken advantage of, is that you become angry and cynical, and begin to withdraw from opportunity. The key is to be self-aware of your naivete and lean into calculated risks. The best way to practice is to give away your best for free, expect nothing in return, and you’ll become a safe beacon for good people to trust in. 

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The idea of taking on more responsibilities in your life might sound overwhelming, but at least it’s a wake-up call to be more responsible for your current obligations and commitments. To take that first step you might have to do an honest housekeeping clean out of all the negative commitments you’ve made. Once you are re-oriented, add more responsibilities that push you to find your true capacity and capability to release the greatest version of yourself. 

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We lie to ourselves all the time and maybe because it’s simply the animal brain that finds life easier that way. However, lying to yourself builds into a persona where lying to everyone becomes easy and natural. The problem is that lying requires enormous energy that depletes us. When we are depleted, we have no energy left to push ourselves into challenges that help us grow into our true potential and live a more fulfilled life. So although lying is a hard habit to break, at least stop lying to yourself regularly and take notice of your newly found energy. 

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Many people fret over the lack of time to go after what they want. However, the question deeper than that is what are you focusing your attention on. One you become conscious of that, you’ll see that most likely someone, some company, some app or some marketer actually owns a large chunk of your attention, not you. The way out is to become strongly and emotionally attached to what you love the most and consciously attend to that until you’re less vulnerable to the attention master-manipulators. 

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The greatest awakening we experience in life centers around the realization that the real world might not be what we perceived it to be. We come to realize that we see the world through our own lens also known as our self-image. Therefore, we must look at how our lens was crafted to begin with and challenge what we see to further help us respect the viewpoints of other people who are seeing differently than we are. 

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In the words of the late great Zig Ziglar why be a wandering generality when you can be a meaningful specific? The critical importance of this challenging question is based on our need as goal-seeking organisms to have a primary chief aim even though oftentimes we might change that goal when we recognize that something else is now more important to us. 

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Fear and anxiety can be debilitating and demoralizing. When you suffer from them you often create an anxiety monster that lives in you head and grows bigger every time you feed it. So the way to eliminate that monster is to starve it. You do that by 1. Identifying the thing you're actually afraid of 2. Creating a simple plan to work on that thing that matters to you and 3. Recognizing how good steady improvement feels and 4. Realizing that the only thing the anxiety monster lives on is when it gets you to stop working. 

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Judging ourselves seems to be part of the human condition that we won’t ever be able to eliminate so we must harness it as a positive tool. The key is to set a clear vision for an ideal version of your life and pursue that as a game worth playing. The caveat is to beware of cognitive distortions that will cause you to fall into a dangerous state of self-put-down where you might fall very far off course and away from the reality of how good your life actually is.

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I recently started reading a book called One Million Followers by Brendan Kane that I had previously dismissed as click-bait. However, when I heard Bredan speak online something told me to scrap my cynicism and lean in. Although I am certainly a believer in the power of content and social media, I realized that I had become too comfortable and was only looking for the evidence that supported what I was already doing was enough. The effectiveness of the strategies outlined in his book helped me realize that to maintain complete open-mindedness I need to A-B-L: Always Be Learning. 

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If we stop to think about how we put ourselves and our potential down, we become conscious of how we are the real enemy. By falling into the trap of diminutization or severe personal contraction, we are growing a very dangerous inferiority complex that is a hard habit to break free from. Therefore, you must start building a superiority complex to combat your inner weakness and that starts simply by stating on a regular basis, Why not me?”

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