It is important to want more in your life and it is important that you make yourself a priority.

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Other people are convinced they know what they want without thinking very hard about it.  They work for years to get where they think they want to go, yet when they finally get there, they realize that it wasn’t what they really wanted at all.  Had they taken the time to figure things out genuinely, had they been moving down the right road instead of the wrong road, their lives would be completely different.

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The indispensable first step to getting the things that you want out of life is this:  Decide what you want.

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Forgive.  Take your power back.  You’re worth it.

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Make sure you don’t contaminate your new relationships by dragging unwanted baggage into them.  If you don’t reach emotional closure with your previous boyfirend or girlfriend, you’re going to let that person continue to control you in your furture relationships–control you in every relationship you will ever have.  If that is not an incentive to motivate you to want to be free, I don’t know what is.

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Don’t make new relationships pay for the sins and transgressions of those that came before them.

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You cannot give a pure love to your girlfriend or boyfriend, or your siblings or your parents, if your heart is full of anger.

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After you’ve been hurt and you make the decision to forgive, aim for the “I’m out of here” response–that is, do the very least that you have to do in order to get emotional closure.

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