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Why You Don ’ t Have WHAT YOU WANT ( And four things you must do so you CAN have it ) BY STACEY MARTINO

Steve Harvey , one of my favorite comedians , tells a brilliant story about the flea in the jar . Despite being such a tiny creature , a flea can actually jump as high as six feet !

Yet if you put a flea in a jar with a lid on it , that flea will spend its life believing it ’ s only capable of jumping a few inches .
But the minute you take the lid off the jar , the flea jumps out and realizes , “ Oh my gosh ! This whole time I could have jumped six feet , but I didn ’ t know , because there ’ s always been this lid on my jar !”
Steve also shared that as a boy , one of his teachers insisted he was no good at certain

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