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Define your own path to riches

The people around you will tell you what you should and shouldn't want, no matter how you feel about it. If you don't have a mind of your own, you will find yourself pandering to their opinions and staying stuck in a rut for years — or a lifetime.

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Principles are the link between your actions and your values

Through the years, successful people have experimented with different principles and have identified universally effective ones. Here, Dalio breaks his principles into two groups. The first encompasses his most fundamental life principles, while the second group includes management principles, an extension of the former.

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Mindfulness is the key to being intentional about your actions and choices in your relationship

Do you remember when you and your current partner started dating? Can you recall how thrilling and exhilarating it felt to begin this relationship?

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Achieve success by cultivating self-discipline and learning from experts

If you want to be successful, the first thing to do is to come up with your personal definition of success. How do you define success? If you could magically make your life perfect in every way, what would it look like?

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Having free time encourages you to focus on your health and well-being.

Learning how not to always be working isn’t centered on working less, stopping work, or not having a job at all.

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What mental strength means and why it matters.

We all have some level of mental strength, but there is always room for improvement; it’s not as simple as being mentally strong or mentally weak.

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No one will know what you want unless you say it.

So much depends on communication. Verbal or non-verbal, our mastery of it defines whether we will be successful among other human beings. Moreover, it is inevitable because how else would we co-exist and progress as a society?

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A good sex life is necessary in any marriage and is indeed worth striving for.

Marital intimacy, including sexual intimacy, creates a beautiful connection between two committed people that strengthens a relationship. Every couple deserves warmth, intimacy, and their own share of “wow sex.”

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Love is a verb — you don't just feel it, you also act it.

Everyone seems to know how to fall in love but few know how to keep relationships alive.

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After so many years of research, neuroscience and Buddhism have found common ground — the self is not real.

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Everyone wants happiness, but it requires work—a lot more than average.

Many people have tried to answer questions that pertain to true happiness: “What are the meanings and mysteries of happiness?” “Is it possible to acquire more of it?” “Can new happiness endure?”