What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
BARBARA SHERYou don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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Time is clay; make something.
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There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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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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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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