By all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
STEVE PAVLINABy all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
STEVE PAVLINASaying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.
STEVE PAVLINAAny relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are – by definition – abusive relationships. You’ll be much better off when you let them go.
STEVE PAVLINAIf you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.
STEVE PAVLINAAchieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
STEVE PAVLINAOur brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughts
STEVE PAVLINACuriosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
STEVE PAVLINAEveryone you meet in your life – even total strangers – are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.
STEVE PAVLINAThe exact process you use to build courage isn’t important. What’s important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don’t regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don’t consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears.
STEVE PAVLINATo abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
STEVE PAVLINASpiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully.
STEVE PAVLINAThe universe cannot show you anything which you’ve intentionally chosen to block from your reality.
STEVE PAVLINAFor good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
STEVE PAVLINAWhen you fail you discover your boundaries. You map out the edges of your capabilities. And this allows you to eventually move beyond them. Being wrong eventually leads to being right. And even where it doesn’t, it’s still a more interesting path than being nothing.
STEVE PAVLINADon’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously.
STEVE PAVLINAProductivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
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