Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
STEVE PAVLINAYou must give before you can get.
More Steve Pavlina Quotes
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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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It’s important to note that you don’t have to earn money from all of your interests. If you just dive in and pursue what you enjoy, you may be surprised to find out which interests help you generate income and which don’t.
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It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog – you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.
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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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Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts
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Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
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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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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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Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.
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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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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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Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
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You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
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If you want to experience abundance, then don’t choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.
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You must give before you can get.
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It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
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The exact process you use to build courage isn’t important. What’s important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don’t regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don’t consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears.
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If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.
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Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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It’s a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won’t commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange.
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For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
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We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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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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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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I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
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