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“Maturity is the harmonious blend of life’s teachings and our relentless effort to understand and practice them”

Life Lessons Effort Maturity

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“Efforts belong to man but elevation to greatness comes from God.”

Effort Greatness

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“Never expect to earn where you've not invested anything; nor is a farmer expecting to harvest where he didn't sow nothing. —Effort pays off..”

Effort Harvest Invest Earn Farmer

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“The greatest tragedy in life is when people lack mastery of their craft and turn on excuses, pointing fingers and blaming others for their shortcomings.”

Mastery Excuses Craft

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“For any productive assignment and task at hand, there are usually a thousand lame excuses and one good reason; just pick your side.”

Excuses Reasons For Action

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“Commit a tale-teller who is a sluggard to a task and wait for the story and a creative excuse.”

Lazy Excuses Sluggard

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“Laziness looks at excuses as something to treasure while diligence always focuses on excuses as an inconvenience to be overcome”

Laziness Excuses Diligence

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“Provide an excuse to a poor mind and you will be deemed as noble amongst mankind”

Excuses Poor Mind

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“God-given opportunities are always time-bound and depend much on our response to seizing them on the timely basis”

Opportunities Timing

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“In this fallen world, we find the opportunity to rise through grace, overcoming the brokenness with resilience and hope”

Opportunities Fallen World

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“When the door of opportunity opens in your life, even if its a small slit. Learn to go through immediately and seize it since you do not know when it will reopen for you again.”

Life Lessons Wisdom Quotes Opportunities Performance

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“Package your gift and talent in such a way that you can help as many people as possible; and afford others the opportunity to bring their unique skills and abilities to help you as well.”

Wisdom Inspiration Motivation Skills Opportunities Gifts Talents Shallua

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“There are plenty of business opportunities around us, what we need is a creative entrepreneurial discernment to be able to discover, recognize and guts to seize them.”

Entrepreneurship Opportunities Discernment Wealth Creation Shallua Seize Every Opportunity

Book:Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“The principle of maintaining momentum states that tasks should never be shelved at the point that requires an equivalent or greater amount of energy to continue than that which was used initially to get started. Therefore, one needs to know where to halt projects so that they can be easily picked up again”

Momentum Project Management

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“The lesson we have learned in life is that it does not matter the size of the dream or idea, find small entry points that can be implemented daily, weekly, and monthly by small tasks that are integral of the entire project.”

Ideas Project Management Visionary Shallua

Book:Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“Projects need to be interdisciplinary in order to fully utilize every available expertise.”

Expertise Project Management Interdisciplinary

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“The world has takers and givers, the moment you decide to be a taker you will always be in want, scarcity and on downward spiral. Givers are always watered and never wither even in the dry season.”

Scarcity Downward Spiral Takers Givers Never Lack Watering Others

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“The best artists compose songs for themselves to experience the moment, it just happens that others identify and relate to the experience.”

Artist Experience Songs Compose

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“Half-truths presented to the third party are as atrocious as lies, and not presenting the whole story is as detrimental as deception itself”

Deception Damage Half Truths

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“Accept your flaws in order to grow in your areas of weakness. Blind spots have been known to be dangerous from ancient days, let others help as they can see you better than you do by yourself.”

Grow Accept Blind Spots

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“We might find ourselves going through the motions at work, performing tasks without passion or purpose, and spending evenings in a state of depleted exhaustion. This isn’t living; it’s enduring. Our ambition fades not because we do not desire more, but because our energy has been hijacked by the urgent need to simply survive”

Life Survival Grinding

Book:The New Me: A Step-by-Step Guide to Personal Reinvention

Source: The New Me: A Step-by-Step Guide to Personal Reinvention

“Great negotiators have learned to give and take during the process, as much as you say no, you have to say yes and the converse is always true.”

Give And Take Negotiate

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“Work harder on what you are already good at; and lesser on what you are not good at. That is what sharpening your skills is all about.”

Life Lessons Skills Self Improvement Sharpen

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“If you curse the hand that feeds you then do not complain the day you sleep hungry. In other words; do not curse the alligator (or crocodile) before crossing the river.”

Hungry Curse River Complain Feed Crocodile Alligator

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“One that counts is better than ten that do not count. Few handy are more usable than many but absent.”

Few Resourcefulness Usable

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“Life has an amazing way of helping you realize your dreams in ways far from what you could have ever imagined at the beginning of your dream. In the world of dreams and vision, bigger is better, and there's no way to get there with a shortcut.”

Wisdom Motivation Vision Dreams Bigger Shallua Shortcut

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“There is one's presence that illuminates the moment and makes a day; while there are those that darken and ruin the occasion.”

Illuminate Occasion Darken

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“In leadership those who elevate themselves and lobby for position get abased; while those who abase themselves to serve the company and others get elevated. The way up should be going down.”

Leadership Elevate Abase

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“They were days when saying 'I don't know" used to be shameful and dumb, how I miss those days that are replaced by glorification and honoring ignorance and mental laziness.”

Good Old Days I Don T Know Idk Mental Laziness

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“In picking up the lifetime partner for your life, go slowly, be careful, and do prayerfully”

Lifetime Spouse Partner Courting And Dating

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“Many beginner entrepreneurs become overly and unrealistic ambitious and want to operate beyond borders before taking time to learn the challenges and what it takes to expand overseas”

Wisdom Entrepreneurship Wealth Creation Shallua Global Business

Book:Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“Instead of fixating on discovering the perfect partner, concentrate on becoming the ideal partner yourself. By dedicating yourself to personal growth and improvement, you naturally align with the person who enters your life as a compatible match.”

Self Improvement Ideal Partner

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“Authentic you is the desired you; do not try to be anybody else but just you.”

Authentic Self Desired

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“The principle of reward states that almost invariably the greatest rewards follow absolute devotion, determination and dedication to the craft”

Determine Reward Principle Devote Dedicate

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“I would rather deal with those who have learned a lot and profess a little, rather than those who have learned a little and profess a lot.”

Fake People Pompous Imposter

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“Spiritual development and growth generate the anointing, integrity contains it so that it doesn't destroy the bearer while accountability sustains it in a long run.”

Anointing Generator

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“Many times we are committed to the process but not the person to whom we would like to see the results. It is always ending up becoming mechanical and too robotic.”

Process Commitment Interpersonal Skills Mechanical

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“Asking the right questions will always lead to getting the right answers and solutions”

Right Questions Solutions To Problems

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“Where there is disrespect and dishonor normally grace and mercy disappear meanwhile privileges and favors tend to automatically cease.”

Disrespect Dishonor Grace And Mercy Privileges And Favor

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“Every dream like an eagle's egg has three phases; incubation (brooding) period were all the facts about the dream are collected and carefully analyzed; nurturing period were much is invested initially and very little may be realized immediately and flying period were the dream has broken loose and it becomes a reality to the dreamer”

Dream Motivation Phases Nurturing Brooding Shallua Eagle Egg Incubation

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“What you think would work against you might ends up working for you. Learn to journal all those incidences to boost your confidence to counter all negative and limiting beliefs in your life.”

Shallua Limiting Beliefs Journal Writing

Book:Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“Arise eat and rest with no remorse, because the journey is long.”

Fatigue Rest Burnout Recuperation

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“In order to go up you must be willing to go down in some aspects of life such as pride, ego and self-serving.”

Pride Ego Self Serving Going Down Going Up

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“In the realm of ideas, those who are open to change are like explorers, venturing into uncharted territories and discovering new intellectual horizons. The ability to change one's position is a hallmark of personal growth and intellectual maturity, for it shows a willingness to shed old skin and embrace new possibilities”

Ideas Maturity Change Position

Author:Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“The wardrobe of life has three coats: one with many colors symbolizing favor; wear it with humility; and the second woven with the threads of servitude, integrity, and honesty. It may feel heavy at times, but it shapes the strength of our character. The third coat, adorned with honor, recognition, and elevation, is earned through trials and perseverance; wear it with responsibility and gratitude. In every phase of life, our coats change—from the vibrant colors of favor to the sturdy fabric of integrity, and finally to the robe of honor, each teaching us invaluable lessons”

Coats Jackets Robes Life Seasons

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“In the business world, beware of people who are overly friendly, personal, and overreaching, invariably they do have a hidden agenda more than a genuine business transaction at hand.”

Business Overreaching Hidden Agenda

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“The way we use our $3000 monthly salary today will reflect exactly how we will use the $300,000 and the $3 million that we are going to have in future. It’s better to start exercising and flexing those giving and charity muscles now than later when it is going to hurt most.”

Inspirational Giving Charity Abundance Shallua Financial Management

Book:Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“Forget the past, dwell on today and focus on the future.”

Wisdom Inspiration Motivational Shallua

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“Death is the best thing that could happen to mankind in order to make imperfection of life temporary on the planet earth.”

Death And Dying Shallua Wisdpm

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“Life can turn to be meaningless and hopeless if we miss some few turns and twists on the way to find ourselves totally lost and immersed in a maze of despair, purposeless and misery.”

Inspirational Wisdom Motivational Life Lessons Shallua

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Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the ProcessRelated source material

The New Me: A Step-by-Step Guide to Personal ReinventionRelated source material