Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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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.
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Isolation is a dream killer.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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.
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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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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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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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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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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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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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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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