Step by step, you make your ...

Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.
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 Gretchen Rubin

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Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.
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Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.
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We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.
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The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good
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We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
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