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.
BARBARA SHERYou 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.
BARBARA SHERResentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHERDO 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 SHERDoing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHERIf you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
BARBARA SHERIt’s only too late if you don’t start now.
BARBARA SHERBeing judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
BARBARA SHERWe are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHERDoing 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.
BARBARA SHERWhenever 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.
BARBARA SHERWhat 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.
BARBARA SHEREvery 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 SHERIt’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
BARBARA SHERIn 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.
BARBARA SHERReal 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.
BARBARA SHERHappy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
BARBARA SHER