Network selectively. Nothing says “business newbie” like shotgun networking. “You never know when someone might say yes” is marketing for dummies.
STEVE PAVLINANetwork selectively. Nothing says “business newbie” like shotgun networking. “You never know when someone might say yes” is marketing for dummies.
STEVE PAVLINAImaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it’s a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don’t know what will happen until you try.
STEVE PAVLINAAchieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
STEVE PAVLINAI realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.
STEVE PAVLINAI believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
STEVE PAVLINAReplace “Have to” with “Want to.”
STEVE PAVLINAFor good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
STEVE PAVLINASpiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully.
STEVE PAVLINAIf you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
STEVE PAVLINAYou must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you’re going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.
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 PAVLINAFear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
STEVE PAVLINARealize that you earn income by providing value – not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.
STEVE PAVLINASpend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It’s perfectly OK to want the impossible. It’s not OK to pretend that your desires don’t matter.
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 PAVLINAIt’s important to note that you don’t have to earn money from all of your interests. If you just dive in and pursue what you enjoy, you may be surprised to find out which interests help you generate income and which don’t.
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