Steve Pavlina Quotes

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If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do.

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Inspirational, Life, Time

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Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

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Thinking, Acting, Fuzzy

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When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

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Strong, Hard Work, Purpose

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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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Enemy, Needs, Compass

"The Courage to Live Consciously". www.stevepavlina.com. October 27, 2004.

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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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Cells, Ideas, Body

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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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Work, Smart, Ego

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When you discipline yourself to do what is hard, you gain access to a realm of results that are denied everyone else. The willingness to do what is difficult is like having a key to a special private treasure room.

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Keys, Discipline, Special

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Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren’t.

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Different, Growing, Want

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If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

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Insult, Accepting, Decline

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Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions.

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Moving, Intelligent, Decision

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The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.

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Past, Thought Provoking, Boss

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If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.

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Goal, Wasting Time, Ifs

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You 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.

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Money, Responsibility, Firsts

"Living Paycheck to Paycheck". www.stevepavlina.com. March 5, 2009.

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Replace "Have to" with "Want to."

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Want

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The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.

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Discipline, Self Discipline, Easier

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If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

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Falling In Love, Hard Work, Goal

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The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

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Intelligent, Life Is, Grows

Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.159, ReadHowYouWant.com

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In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.

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Strong, Reading, Successful

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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. 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.

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Business, Hate, Passion

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If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.

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Trying, Asking, Answers

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Spend 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.

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Thought Provoking, Desire, Want

Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.

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Football, Passion, Hands

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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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Time, Work, Income

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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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Thought Provoking, May, Want

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When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.

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Independent, Events, Becoming Independent

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