The starting point is establishing realistic long-term goals that are within the student's budget and physical limitations.

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It makes for unhappy but realistic reading for the US economy and it provides a starting point for a fantasy-free policy response to American decline as well as for the British.

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The first thing you do is build a realistic step-by-step program to build up your endurance based on your starting point.

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