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.
BARBARA SHERA 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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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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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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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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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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