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.
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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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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To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work… I’ve found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.
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Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
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Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are – by definition – abusive relationships. You’ll be much better off when you let them go.
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By all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
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People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
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Realize that you earn income by providing value – not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.
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For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
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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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In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you’ll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren’t regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.
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I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.
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Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
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The universe cannot show you anything which you’ve intentionally chosen to block from your reality.
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Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It’s perfectly OK to want the impossible. It’s not OK to pretend that your desires don’t matter.
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