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How to strengthen your willpower
How to overcome temptation and distractions
The role of motivation in willpower
Get Out Your Metal Detector
If you scan the landscape of your life, you’ll notice certain experiences peak up. It’s so valuable to delve into these “peak moments” and extract the key ingredients.
Make a list of the ingredients that truly mattered in your peak moments; don’t be distracted by the counterfeits.
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Expect the Mutiny
When you seek your passion, there’ll be parts of you that go into rebellion.
Uncover the years of conditioning—from parents, school, partners, and colleagues—and reassure the mutinying parts that your ship is sailing in the right direction.
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Start With the Right Perspective
If you’re convinced that finding your passion is hard, or that it’s not going to happen for you, you’ll remain closed to possibilities.
Choose to adopt the perspective that you can do what you love with your life. One of the best ways to strengthen this point of view is...
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Hobby vs. Profitable Passion
If you want to contribute your passion to society and make an income from it, you need to get realistic about whether this could actually turn into a career—and what you would need to do to make that happen.
Be alert to who might need your newly emerging passion, and aim to...
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Find the Limits of Your Bravery
Discover what risks work for you. The path of passion is where you do things that scare you enough, without leaving you in a constant state of fear. Expand your comfort zone, rather than leaving it.
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Look for the Umbrella
When you look at all the ingredients that matter to you, they might at first seem entirely disconnected. Let’s say you love French, drinking coffee, playing with words, analyzing and categorizing, and being a leader within a community. How could you construct a career from these?
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Challenge your negative ideas
Don’t believe everything that comes into your head! It’s easy to imagine disaster and catastrophe, but it’s more useful to make a habit out of challenging these ideas.
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