Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHERNow 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
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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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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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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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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.
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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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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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