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

Barbara Sher

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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Dream Jobs Real
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
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
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
Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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Declaration Independence Irreverence
What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Career Heart Passion
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Music Used Violin
You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Heart Tell Want
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
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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Country Destination Horizon
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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Dream Inspiration Loss
Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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Change Inevitable Likely Only
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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Eye Focus Hands
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.
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Happiness Love Unique
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
Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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Dream Seriously Start Wish
Time is clay; make something.
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Clay Make Something
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
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Attitude Real Worry
Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
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Facts Greatness Love
And our dreams are who we are.
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Dream Hard Passion Success Work
Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Find Love Out Stick Sticks
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.
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Careers Choices Thinking
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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Inspirational Learning Life
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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Design Play Time
Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Creativity Dancing Waiting
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

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

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