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Know your worth but stay humble. Never assume you’ll receive recognition. Earn your reputation. Do not settle on yesterday’s deeds forever, because today, right here and now, is that all anyone has for sure. Even being the best is not an everlasting status in itself. Every day is a challenge. Tomorrow always makes you prove that your successes of yesterday and yesteryears were the usual compared to your extraordinary new normal.
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Self-confidence: the validation of knowing who you are as opposed to who people say you are. Validation: Once you know your worth, even though people will try to devalue you, you prove yourself right, since you are priceless. They are wrong about you, thus their underestimation of you will prove them wrong. Just be just you. Your introspection, your self-reflection, is more important than anyone's perception, misrepresentation, of you.