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<p><strong>Start Your Day Right</strong><br />
Take 30 minutes each morning to sit quietly and to reflect on your goals. You&#8217;ll find when you read the biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women that almost everyone of them began their upward trajectory to success when they begin getting up early in the morning and spending time with themselves. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/12/the-golden-hour-by-brian-tracy/" title="Permanent Link: The Golden Hour By Brian Tracy" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":906,"date":"2011-12-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=906"},"modified":"2011-12-29T22:34:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T03:34:53","slug":"the-golden-hour-by-brian-tracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/12\/the-golden-hour-by-brian-tracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Hour By Brian Tracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/brian-tracy.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Tracy - motivational speaker and author\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/>You become what you think about most of the time. 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