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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

IF YOU WISH to be successful, here are the steps that will help you get there. You can read scores of books on the subject, or you can follow these simple steps and take action.

If you are to improve your station in life, positive change must take place. Here are five things you need to do:

1. Have a desire to improve. You can refer to this as your ultimate goal, your mission, your purpose, or something else, but it must be a burning obsession or passion. It must be so strong that you live it, eat it, go to bed with it, and are consumed by the need to “see” it materialize.

2. Belief is a state of mind that lets you be confident ...

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