Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
BARBARA SHERThinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
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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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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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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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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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