Steve Pavlina is the author of the blog Stevepavlina.com, and the book Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth. Of late he has suffered a dip in popularity due to his controversial stance on polygamy and extra-marital affairs (He votes YES).

[From the 100 Ways To Be Being Remarkable Series, a special project that brings you business and self-development advice from The Success Manual. ]

Steve is best known for posts like these 30 days to success.http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/, How to be your boss, How to make money from your blog etc.

Steve Pavlina's Best Quotes
..to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes.
The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.
True courage is more a matter of intellect than of feeling.
Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.
Identify your peak cycles of productivity, and schedule your most important tasks for those times.
Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - is already intimately connected to you.
When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.
Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth: A concise summary
There are just three core principles – truth, love and power. The secondary principles are:

Oneness = Truth + Love
Authority = Truth + Power
Courage = Love + Power
Intelligence = Truth + Love + Power

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