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How to Design a Life Worth Smiling About: Developing Success in Business and in Life
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How to Design a Life Worth Smiling About: Developing Success in Business and in Life

by Darryl Davis
May 2014
Beginner
240 pages
5h 28m
English
McGraw-Hill
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CHAPTER 6

HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR NEXT LEVEL

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

—Joseph Addison, seventeenth–eighteenth-century author and politician

So now that you have your Next Level vision, it’s important that you have a plan for how you’re going to get there. You see, in order for you to achieve this “new you,” you can’t keep doing the same things that you’ve been doing because if you do, you’ll simply get the same results you’ve been getting. So having a vision and a dream of a Next Level is not enough. You must take the actions necessary to facilitate bringing this new reality into the present.

Let’s say you have a vision ...

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