Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
BARBARA SHERAction 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.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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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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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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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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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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