Everyone you meet in your life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.
STEVE PAVLINAPeople often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
More Steve Pavlina Quotes
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To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won’t die with my music still in me.
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When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.
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When you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn’t, it’s still a more interesting path than being nothing.
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Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees is crazy).
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Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
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Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously.
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Do what you love, but be damned sure it’s profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn’t generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail… and your business along with it.
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You must give before you can get.
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Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
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Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
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Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
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If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
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Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being.
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Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
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