Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHERWhat you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
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What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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