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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

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
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Endeavor Wish
There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Inspiration Inspiring
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

Design Play Time
Every 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 SHER

Acceptance Love Loving Single Yourself
Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Hours Way
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
Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
BARBARA SHER

Love Obligation Passion Privilege
The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
BARBARA SHER

Love Marriage Way
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.
BARBARA SHER

Best Effort Love Mean
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.
BARBARA SHER

Home Horse Tired
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
Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
BARBARA SHER

Creativity Dancing Waiting
Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
BARBARA SHER

Moving People Two
Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
BARBARA SHER

Cheap Fool Judgmental
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
BARBARA SHER

Careers Choices Thinking

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