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How do you discover your real purpose in life? I'm not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all - the very reason you exist. Perhaps you're a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Doesn't matter. Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping...

Someone asked about the best way to handle competition. How do you ensure that your efforts will pay off instead of merely jumping into a giant pool with everyone else and being unable to stand out? My strategy for dealing with competition is the same no matter what field I work in. I’m sure you can apply it to your particular field as well, although there’s a good chance you won’t want to, since it isn’t easy.

Do you wish you could regulate your life better? Many people do, and they don't realize that the most important investments we, as humans, can make are investments in ourselves. Stop putting up with yourself and make some strides in your personal development today. Not tomorrow. Today.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: 1. 8 shortcuts to desire and motivation, 2. Do a full days work in 90 minutes, 3. How to prioritize, 4. Selecting projects wisely, 5. Please don't interrupt.

In this book you will learn all about how to make sense of infinite possibilities, love the chaos, find order and clarity despite chaos, stay or go decisions, what to do when objective reality beats you down, shedding personal weaknesses, EQing your life, turning weaknesses into strengths, how to address core weaknesses, how to work from your strengths and train up your weaknesses, how to move a skill to a different part of your brain to improve productivity, how re-framing fear could improve productivity, learning new skills, and the skill of calibration.

Limiting beliefs can seriously hold us back in life. But most of the time such beliefs are invisible to us. They control some of our thoughts and behaviors behind the scenes, enough to curtail our results in some area of life. For example, if you have the false belief that mistakes and failure are bad, then you’ll avoid many growth and learning experiences because you have to be willing to fail in order to build new skills.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: YOU CAN CHANGE TODAY, 8 SHORTCUTS TO DESIRE AND MOTIVATION, THE #1 REASON PEOPLE FAIL AT 30-DAY CHALLENGES, HABITS AND THE LONG VIEW, CLARITY.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: BEING AN ACHIEVER, DO A FULL DAYS WORK IN 90 MINUTES, CONTROLLING YOUR OWN SCHEDULE, TRIPLE YOUR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY, PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT, PRIME YOUR BRAIN FOR A PERMANENT PERFORMANCE GAIN IN A FEW MINUTES.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: DO A FULL DAYS WORK IN 90 MINUTES, CONTROLLING YOUR OWN SCHEDULE, HOW TO PRIORITIZE, YOU CAN CHANGE TODAY.

Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state. Imagine what you could accomplish if you could simply get yourself to follow through on your best intentions no matter what.

Neurological imbalances can show up as psychological, behavioral, and motivational problems. If we try to treat these problems at the psychological or behavioral levels, however, we can’t effectively cure them because the problems have physical causes, such as a buildup of toxicity in the brain.

The typical American office worker only does about 90 minutes of real work per workday. The rest of each workday is largely spent on distractions like reading the news, web surfing, socializing with coworkers, snacking, taking coffee breaks, shuffling papers around, processing irrelevant emails, needless delay tactics, playing games, and daydreaming. Moreover, American office workers are among the world’s most productive. In many other countries, even less work gets done each day. This stat hasn't changed much in decades.

We are what we make ourselves to be. From one perspective we’re all separate individuals. From another perspective we can see ourselves as a unified whole. Imagine a gigantic sheet of aluminum foil with billions of tiny indentations in it, like protruding fingers. As individuals we’re the dents. Collectively we’re the foil. You can choose to adopt either perspective, or switch back and forth. As an individual your power is limited. You’re just a dent in a sea of other dents. But you have an interesting perspective on the whole sheet. No other dent sees the same picture you do.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: HOW TO STOP COMPLAINING, REMOVE A LIMITING BELIEF IN ABOUT 20 MINUTES, HOW TO SQUASH NEGATIVE THOUGHT PATTERNS, OVERCOMING NEWS ADDICTION, CLARITY, UPGRADING YOUR MIND.

I had already dropped TV news and newspapers, but I still had the habit of checking Yahoo News or CNN every day or two, so for 30 days I decided to drop all news sources and go totally news-free. In this audiobook I'll share what I learned from this experiment. It went well enough that I intend to remain free of the habit of daily news checking.

Suppose a group of superintelligent aliens came to earth. Or suppose that humans developed some advanced A.I. that’s far beyond our mental and physical abilities. If we could somehow communicate with these beings, what might we say to them? We might be too scared to say anything. We might just run and hide. But if we could manage our fear enough to say something, we can imagine some possible scenarios.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: THE CHALLENGE OF CHOOSING THE RIGHT CAREER, BEING AN ACHIEVER, MAKE PEOPLE FEEL GOOD, SELECTING PROJECTS WISELY, TRIPLE YOUR PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY, HOW TO BUILD A STRONG WORK ETHIC, HOW TO BEAT THE COMPETITION, PERSONAL BRANDING, WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF BECOMING A BLACK BELT?

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: Understanding human relationships, make people feel good, how to help negative people, how to decide when to end a long term relationship, understanding family relationship problems, ridiculously rewarding relationships.

There's a notion that's been spread around the spiritual side of the self-help field that suggests one of our primary aims in life should be ego-less enlightenment, a state where we achieve near-perfect inner peace, where we're one with everything but attached to nothing, and where nothing in the physical world can knock us off balance.

This is a collection of writings by the world famous author Steve Pavlina. The following topics are contained in this audio recording: HOW TO TELL IF YOU HAVE A HEALTHY BRAIN, HOW TO SQUASH NEGATIVE THOUGHT PATTERNS, RECOVERY, HOW TO BUILD A STRONGER EGO, HOW TO INVITE CUDDLING WITHOUT INVITING SEX, ENJOYING RICH AND ABUNDANT RELATIONSHIPS.