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When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.

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
If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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Failure Successful Truly
Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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Declaration Independence Irreverence
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.
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Animal Esteem Good Luck Self
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.
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Conceited Mean Self
You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Heart Tell Want
A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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Nature Step Way
Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Leadership Motivation Real
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Attitude Real Worry
The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Environment Success Winner
It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Aquariums Events Expectations
And our dreams are who we are.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Hard Passion Success Work
Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Love Obligation Passion Privilege
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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Behavior Cop Judgmental
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Music Used Violin
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.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Jobs Real

When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.

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