Steve Pavlina
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.Collection: Inspirational
Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.Collection: Thinking
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.Collection: Strong
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.Collection: Cells
Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.Collection: Enemy
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.Collection: Keys
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.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Thought Provoking
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.Collection: Different
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.Collection: Insult
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.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Past
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.Collection: Time
If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.Collection: Goal
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.Collection: Business
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.Collection: Strong
Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is important, but it's merely the result of the relationship, not the cause. If the relationship crumbles, the contract won't save you, although it could be very lucrative for your lawyer.Collection: Business
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.Collection: Falling In Love
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.Collection: Thought Provoking
The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.Collection: Intelligent
Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.Collection: Passion
Negative feelings mean you`re going the wrong wayCollection: Mean
When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.Collection: Independent
Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.Collection: Planning
It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my own life. If I'm lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.Collection: Lazy
Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something "fast and easy" that's about to come next. The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp. The deeper you can dig, the more treasure you can potentially find.Collection: Fall
If you want to express your creativity, then don't choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.Collection: Creativity
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.Collection: Believe
Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.Collection: Reality
Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.Collection: Creating Value
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. If you enjoy your volunteering and charitable activities more than your career, it means your career is in serious need of an upgrade. In my opinion your career should be your best outlet for giving.Collection: Work
People in their early 20s are invariably weird.Collection: People
Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?Collection: Strong
You must give before you can get.Collection: Giving
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Important
Whatever happens to me during the course of my life - physically, socially, or financially - I can always choose to focus on giving. When I'm in that state, nothing else matters. I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.Collection: Expression
If you want to experience abundance, then don't choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.Collection: Jobs
If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.Collection: Trying
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.Collection: Curiosity
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.Collection: People
It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.Collection: Funny
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. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.Collection: Dream
Think for yourself. Unplug yourself from follow-the-follower groupthink, and virtually ignore what everyone else in your industry is saying (except the ones everyone agrees is crazy). Do your own research, draw your own conclusions, set your own course, and stick to your guns. When you're just starting out, people will tell you you're wrong. After you've blown past them, they'll tell you you're crazy. A few years after that, they'll (privately) ask you to mentor them.Collection: Business
Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical youCollection: Two
To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.Collection: Lifestyle
The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.Collection: Important
Separate yourself from your ideas and your work and see them as something separate from yourself, you’ll feel you truly have the right to be wrong. If an idea fails, why not let it be the idea’s fault instead of your own? Allow your ideas to fail without turning them into personal defeat. 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.Collection: Moving
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get itCollection: Sacrifice