black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Saying 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 Pavlina

You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
STEVE PAVLINA

Free Tableled Untamable
Everyone 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 PAVLINA

Body Cells Ideas
In fact, it’s a safe bet that you’ll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won’t allow yourself to receive what you don’t feel you’ve earned. To receive life’s bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it.
STEVE PAVLINA

Allow Fact Receive Subconsciously
If something is important enough to you that you feel the urge to donate your money or time to it, I think it’s best to try to express that form of giving through your career, not just as something you do on the side.
STEVE PAVLINA

Mean Thinking Work
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
STEVE PAVLINA

Growth Sacrifice Worthless
By all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
STEVE PAVLINA

Advice Mean People
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being.
STEVE PAVLINA

Challenges Thinking Waiting
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
STEVE PAVLINA

Action Motivation Secret
One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.
STEVE PAVLINA

Belief Choices Free Will
If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there’s a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.
STEVE PAVLINA

Reality Roots Strong
When 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 PAVLINA

Boundary Capabilities Eventually Right
Regardless of others’ reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.
STEVE PAVLINA

Choices Mirrors Provoking Thought
Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don’t foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall… except the one in China.
STEVE PAVLINA

Business Formality Loyal Wall
If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
STEVE PAVLINA

Answers Asking Trying
The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.
STEVE PAVLINA

Grows Intelligent
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.
STEVE PAVLINA

Hard Work Purpose Strong

Saying 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Saying 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Steve Pavlina Quotes