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To compare yourself against others only exhausted and stresses you. You are growing at your pace. Your goals are different from others. Your circumstances are unique. Your timeline is only yours. Focus on improving yourself each day, no matter what's happening around you.

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A stitch in time saves nine.

Widely circulatedtraditional·A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, compiled by Thomas Preston·1881

Rather be an hour early than a minute late.

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How you do anything is how you do everything.

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Hate has four letters, but so does love. Enemies has seven letters, but so does friends. Lying has five letters, but so does truth. Failure has seven letters, but so does success. Cry has three letters, but so does joy. Negativity has ten letters, but so does positivity. You always have a choice, so choose the better side of it.

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