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5 Mindset Traps That Stop Us Living Our Best Life

Napoleon Hill called these causes of failure, I call them fuel...

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Jo Barnes
Jun 30, 2025
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I refuse to live anything less than an extraordinary life.

What’s your number one fear in life?

Most people say public speaking. Or death. Or clowns (which, thanks to Stephen King, are now the last thing you want to see in a darkened bedroom.)

But my biggest fear is dying with my music still in me.

It’s the thought that I’ll run out of time before I’ve done the things I know I’m here to do. Before I’ve said what I really want to say, built the work I care about, and lived fully, boldly and without compromise.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been very clear on one thing;

I refuse to live anything less than an extraordinary life.

For me, that means travel, waking up in different places, meeting people whose stories shift my worldview, and learning just as much from a tuk tuk driver in Sri Lanka as I can from a bestselling book.

It means chasing freedom not comfort, and finding ways to generate an income that supports my lifestyle, not the other way around.

What does extraordinary loo…

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