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<p>No matter where you want to go in your life or your career, the one thing I know is that you will be starting from the exact point where you are today.  There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going, and the first necessary step begins when you identify exactly where you are. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/01/success-lesson-deal-in-reality-by-jim-stovall/" title="Permanent Link: Success Lesson: Deal in Reality By Jim Stovall" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1725,"date":"2013-01-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2013-02-20T23:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T04:36:46","slug":"success-lesson-deal-in-reality-by-jim-stovall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/01\/success-lesson-deal-in-reality-by-jim-stovall\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Lesson: Deal in Reality By Jim Stovall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Welch is among the great executives and business minds on the scene today.  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There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going, and the first necessary step begins when you identify exactly where you are. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/01\/success-lesson-deal-in-reality-by-jim-stovall\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Success Lesson: Deal in Reality By Jim Stovall\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jack Welch is among the great executives and business minds on the scene today. 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