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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

1768: Cycles of Life by Steve Pavlina on Taking Advantage of Different Seasons of Your Life

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Steve Pavlina reflects on the cycles of life. Episode 1768: Cycles of Life by Steve Pavlina on Taking Advantage of Different Seasons of Your Life Steve Pavlina is widely recognized as one of the most successful personal development bloggers on the Internet, with his work attracting more than 100 million visits to his website, StevePavlina.com. He has written more than 1300 articles and recorded many audio programs on a broad range of self-help topics, including productivity, relationships, and spirituality. Steve has been quoted as an expert by the New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Los Angeles Daily News, Self Magazine, The Guardian, and countless other publications. He's also a frequent guest on popular podcasts and radio shows. The original post is located here: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/cycles-of-life/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? Visit https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalLivingDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1768,

0:03.2

Cycles of Life by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com

0:07.3

Man, I'm Justin Mollick.

0:08.8

I'm going to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast

0:11.3

where I read to you from some of the best blogs

0:13.5

I can find and get permission from,

0:15.5

sometimes books, covering personal development or self-help,

0:18.8

minimalism, productivity,

0:20.7

anything that I think will make your life more meaningful.

0:23.4

Procure the intro short, so for now, let's get right to it

0:25.9

and start optimizing your life.

0:31.0

Cycles of Life by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com

0:36.0

A reader suggested I write about this topic,

0:40.0

explore the tension between being satisfied with what you have

0:43.0

and your accomplishments versus the desire to do better.

0:47.0

Being too complacent would yield suboptimal results

0:50.0

because you're drifting and not getting close to your true potential.

0:53.0

But push too hard, you may never enjoy what you have

0:56.0

and may burn yourself out,

0:58.0

so it would seem the optimal solution

0:59.6

lies somewhere in the middle between the extremes.

1:02.8

On the one hand, you have complacency.

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