If you can’t do what you love and make it profitable, you’ve either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don’t settle for anything less than passion and profit.
STEVE PAVLINARisk the stuff. It’s worthless anyway. But don’t make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
More Steve Pavlina Quotes
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Imaginary 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.
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In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you’ll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren’t regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.
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Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
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To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn’t deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
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Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
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I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won’t die with my music still in me.
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Replace “Have to” with “Want to.”
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We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
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Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
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By all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
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One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.
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Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
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Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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I 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.
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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.
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