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om someone else in their life, and isn’t internally generated by understanding what you want, and need, to live. Living by external motivation is always the path to a life wasted, and much self-induced sadness. When you exist just to live someone else’s dream, or way of life, you sacrifice who you are, and your own dreams, of what you could be. Are you doing the work and living a life you love, or are you doing what you

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feel obligated to do, because someone else told you this is what you must do, perhaps using a mind-numbing guilt to control you, forcing you into believing this is what you “should” be doing in your life? Centered within yourself is you being authentic to those dreams you hide from others. Living within yourself is you, finally living the life you were meant to live, one only you know and can live.</p></article></body>

Are You Hiding Your Dreams?

Learning to live within yourself

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Few people live centered within themselves. This person’s motivation is given to them from someone else in their life, and isn’t internally generated by understanding what you want, and need, to live. Living by external motivation is always the path to a life wasted, and much self-induced sadness. When you exist just to live someone else’s dream, or way of life, you sacrifice who you are, and your own dreams, of what you could be. Are you doing the work and living a life you love, or are you doing what you feel obligated to do, because someone else told you this is what you must do, perhaps using a mind-numbing guilt to control you, forcing you into believing this is what you “should” be doing in your life? Centered within yourself is you being authentic to those dreams you hide from others. Living within yourself is you, finally living the life you were meant to live, one only you know and can live.

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