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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
BARBARA SHER

Behavior Cop Judgmental
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
If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
BARBARA SHER

Feel Know Vision Want
Isolation is the dream killer.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Isolation Killers
A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
BARBARA SHER

Conceited Mean Self
Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
BARBARA SHER

Appreciation Needs Remember
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 SHER

Animal Esteem Good Luck Self
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
BARBARA SHER

Life Love Mean Sorrow
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
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
BARBARA SHER

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

Swimming Thinking Water
And our dreams are who we are.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Hard Passion Success Work
Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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Change Inevitable Likely Only
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
You don’t have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Action Firsts Time
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

Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

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