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Seven subtle ways you continually sabotage your success (and how to quickly turn that around)

Alex Mathers

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Most of us race towards the grave with our foot on the break. We wonder why we never got what we dreamed of in our youth.

There are several innocent ways we place a big block between ourselves and what we want:

1. Being a slave to ‘personality.’

Nowhere does it say that we are obliged to act like the person we thought we became in our teens.

Nathan called you a dumbass in French class, and now you tell yourself the story of how ‘you’re just not that smart.’

Your mama said you were lazy because you never tidied up your CD collection, so you still cling to the made-up idea that you’re a ‘lazy person.’

None of it is true.

It’s just an idea. You can be whoever the hell you want to be.

Personality is an illusion, and you can break free at any moment.

If you need to bring the heat, don’t wait for your ‘personality’ to give you the go-ahead. Seize that shit with everything you have.

2. Need for interpersonal harmony.

Most people are dead scared of upsetting people. Take advantage of this by being…

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