Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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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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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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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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