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Prioritize Action: Better to Start Than Procrastinate
Despite my entrepreneurial DNA, I admit I used to think the actions that lead to success followed a fairly straight line to the top. Naive, right? As a teenager and college grad, I believed a successful life was going to be simple: I would go to college, get a job, and start a family—each a step up on that straight line to success. This turned out to be far from reality. But that’s okay because success would have been only a fraction as fulfilling as it has been if the path had been linear. Success required me to constantly seize every opportunity to take first steps forward and then the next one, no matter how unpleasant they were.
Back before I knew success was that messy line to the ...
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