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Many times in your life, you’ve probably felt like you didn’t belong in the world.

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If you want to achieve your goals, you have to take small stepping stones toward them every single day. Do not wait until tomorrow to get started.

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The world does not offer us a new start, a fresh hand, once we reach a certain age or milestone. 

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The point is that those tiny steps will keep pushing you along. Those tiny steps will create your habits, and those habits will be the building blocks of your goals and dreams.

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If you are trying to stop eating sweets, go to the gym more, and start a morning journaling practice, our mind will struggle with these if we just try to power through.

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“Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.”

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The thing is, a lot of things we do every day don’t have an appearance of improvement.

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If you’re not happy with where you are in life as another year is about to end, it’s tempting to think you just set the wrong goals.

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I call out to those of you reading who still have a fight left in your bones. 

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There are days when I wonder whether I should give up, whether I should remain in bed, whether I should decide there is no point in trying anymore.