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.
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 can’t do what you love and make it profitable, you’ve either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don’t settle for anything less than passion and profit.
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Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully.
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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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One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.
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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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I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.
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Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
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Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it’s a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don’t know what will happen until you try.
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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.
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If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
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Risk the stuff. It’s worthless anyway. But don’t make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
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Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don’t foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall… except the one in China.
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You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
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The more you’re able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.
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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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I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
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The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.
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Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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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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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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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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I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
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If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it’s best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side.
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Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
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To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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