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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Barbara Sher

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.
BARBARA SHER

Eye Focus Hands
You don’t have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Action Firsts Time
Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Love Obligation Passion Privilege
Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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Criticism Meaningful Purpose
Time is clay; make something.
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Clay Make Something
When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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Eye Life Rewards
Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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Change Inevitable Likely Only
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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Best Effort Love Mean
The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Environment Success Winner
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
BARBARA SHER

Care Genius Originality
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.
BARBARA SHER

Acceptance Love Loving Single Yourself
If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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Failure Successful Truly
What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
BARBARA SHER

Happiness Love Unique
The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
BARBARA SHER

Love Marriage Way
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Music Used Violin
It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
BARBARA SHER

Aquariums Events Expectations

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