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FOLLOW YOUR WANTS INSTEAD OF YOUR MUSTS
If you think about the things you have achieved or created in your life up to now that you chased and chased and which consumed loads of your effort and yet left you happy, it is most likely that you really wanted those things to happen. It could be that ambitious job you really wanted, your own business or someone you asked out on a date. Human beings can’t help but want certain things, and the more they want them, the more they are prepared to do to obtain them. This means that WANTs carry a lot of power within them to help motivate action and resourcefulness.
All of us also have certain MUSTs in our lives. For example, we know that we MUST eat well if we want to perform at our best. We MUST breathe ...
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