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he idea isn’t, however, to have low goals, but to have realistic ones; ones you know you can actually achieve with effort. An examination of yourself and your own capabilities can prove really helpful to get rid of this attitude.

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3. People Pleasing

Who doesn’t love to be liked? But if your whole personality is geared toward making people like you, the odds are you’ll never be able to push past people’s expectations of you to live up to your own. Wanting to make people happy is nearly synonymous with being unable to say ‘no’, and that become...

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1. Getting Derailed By Your Own Mistakes

Mistakes are the most natural thing in the world–and successful people know that . There is no success without a string of failures in...

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4. Thinking You Have Nothing Left To Learn

Bill Gates has already warned against the rot that sets in the minute you believe you have no growing left to do. Thinking you know everything is a guaranteed recipe for you to become irrel...

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So what exactly are the right attitudes? And more importantly, what are the wrong ones currently standing between you and the things you want…?

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2. Getting In Your Own Way

Often, your greatest obstacle is really just yourself. You might think that sounds crazy; why on earth would you ever try to sabotage yourself when all you want is to be successful? However, you’d be surprised at how many people inadvertently cultivate behaviours that stop their progress and inte...

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<p>Remember teachers in school...

Remember teachers in school telling you you’d never achieve success in life if you ‘continued to have that attitude’? Turns out, that childhood warning was spot on, and success in life does indeed link deeply to having the right mindset to get you there. Inc.com wrote about a Stanford University ...

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