Risk the stuff. It’s worthless anyway. But don’t make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
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.
More Steve Pavlina Quotes
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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.
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For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
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Do what you love, but be damned sure it’s profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn’t generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail… and your business along with it.
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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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The universe cannot show you anything which you’ve intentionally chosen to block from your reality.
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You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
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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.
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It’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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By all means listen to other people’s advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
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I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
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Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
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Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.
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Realize 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.
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It’s a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won’t commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange.
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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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