Reality

• Take care of your health (physically and mentally), to ensure your mind and body are ready for growth.
• Manage your emotions in a constructive way. Unresolved anger, resentment, fear, and contempt create tremendous barriers to personal and professional progress.
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• Use Your Values for Goal Setting. For each of your values, make a list of things you could do to put those values into practice. For example, if you wrote “Learning,” you could go back to college and do that degree you’ve always dreamed of. 
• Make Decisions According ...

When mulling over multiple choices, the quality of any option cannot be assessed in isolation from its alternatives. The price you pay (or the sacrifice you make, or the benefits you give up) for doing what you’ve chosen to do instead of doing something else is the opportunity cost.