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What do you really want?

What do you really want?
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  • Why are you doing what you’re doing? What are you hoping to achieve? Understand that there’s no need to work, work, and work to become “your profession” if you don’t want to.

  • In the end, everyone wants just a few simple things, freedom, happiness, and respect from their peers, and it’s all there in their choices.

  • Ask yourself, How do you want to measure your life? Where can you add genuine value? And what do you like to do that makes you feel alive?

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Written by Garv Chawla · Stoic of the Day
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