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I was a hard-core slacker for the first part of my adulthood… and things didn’t change until I woke up one day on a friend’s couch with the blinding realization that if anything good was gonna happen in my life, I needed to be the instigator. No one esoulse was going to help.
You need to learn to enjoy it on your own, however. Your friends, for the most part, will resist your efforts to change. They’ll feel threatened, with good reason. Because, when you start taking responsibility, and stop making excuses, then things start happening, fast and furious, in your life. And you suddenly have very little left in common with your dullard buddies who remain content to blame their lack of progress on everything but their own laziness.
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