Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
BARBARA SHEREvery 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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.
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Time is clay; make something.
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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.
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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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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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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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