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 SHERNot fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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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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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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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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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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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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