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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

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
Isolation is the dream killer.
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Dream Isolation Killers
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
A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Design Goal Units
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.
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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
Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
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Happiness Love Unique
The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Environment Success Winner
Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Love Obligation Passion Privilege
Doing 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.
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Best Effort Love Mean
We all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
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Delight Emotional Support
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
Isolation is a dream killer.
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Dream Killer Life
When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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Eye Life Rewards
Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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Cheap Fool Judgmental
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Esteem Resentment Self Weak

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.

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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.

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