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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. |
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Helen Keller |
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Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner |
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action life safety courage |
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Ideas without action are worthless. |
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Harvey Mackay |
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United Features Syndicate column, printed 3/22/98 in the Arizona Republic. |
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action creativity opportunity work ideas |
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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. |
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Norman Vincent Peale |
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Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale |
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self-esteem achievement action success self-doubt |
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The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. |
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau |
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priorities |
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..look at that word blame. It's just a coincidence that the last two letters spell the word me. But that coincidence is worth thinking about.
Other people or unfortunate circumstances may have caused you to feel pain, but only you control whether you allow that pain to go on.
If you want those feelings to go away, you have to say: "It's up to me." |
| Author: |
Arthur Freeman |
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The 10 Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make and How to Avoid Them: Simple and Sure Techniques for Gaining Greater Control of Your Life by Dr. Arthur Freeman and Rose DeWolf |
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blame circumstances pain attitude |
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Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time. |
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Dale Dauten |
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His nationally syndicated column which appeared in the 4/16/98 Arizona Republic. |
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gratitude appreciation love friendship wisdom |
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Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you? |
| Author: |
Josh Hinds |
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Inspiration a Day! mailing list |
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encourage discourage sensitivity speech words |
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or ablities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. |
| Author: |
William Penn |
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Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren |
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kindness love friendship sharing talent life |
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. |
| Author: |
Audre Lorde |
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Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd |
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goals priorities fear courage power vision |
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Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. |
| Author: |
Thomas Moore |
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The Education of the Heart by Thomas Moore |
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education heart life experience vulnerability learning |
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The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. |
| Author: |
Blaine Lee |
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The Power Principle: Influence with Honor by Blaine Lee |
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principles circumstances living |
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Whether or not we realize it each of us has a special gift inside us just waiting to surface!...We owe developing these gifts not only to ourselves, but those around us as well... The important thing here is not what your gift is as much as that you develop it so that you can share it with those around you and in the process further your own personal life!... Once we have identified our special talents it doesn't matter whether or not we find immediate success in them, what does matter is that we take a step each day towards our intended goal! |
| Author: |
Josh Hinds |
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Inspiration a Day! mailing list |
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talents goals encourage gifts growth sharing success |
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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. |
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Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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life love creativity standards expectations wellness |
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Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life! |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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focus choice life attitude wellness power |
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Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline...too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with...something about yourself, your career, your spouse. |
| Author: |
Dale Dauten |
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'Charming the brain may allow changes' by Dale Dauten (Arizona Republic 1/7/99) |
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love joy attitude gratitude change growth self-improvement New Year's resolutions relationships success excellence |
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...the Law of Stress-Hardinesss...states that stress is not only to be expected but preferred...we can and should develop an positive, workable approach to stress management...Think of it. The perfect no-stress environment is the grave...When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable. |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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stress attitude life power action wellness |
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You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time...The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones. |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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feelings emotions choice attitude stuck focus wellness |
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The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually. |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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wellness speech thought behavior action |
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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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dreams goals love life |
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Let's face it. In most of life we really are interdependent. We need each other. Staunch independence is an illusion, but heavy dependence isn't healthy, either. The only position of long-term strength is interdependence: win/win. |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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independence co-dependence need interdependence win/win |
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...the supply of misery, pain, and suffering is unlimited. But so is the supply of pleasure, contentment, and fufillment. It is we who do the rationing.
Ration no more! Capture wellness this instant! This instant is all there is. Live it! |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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wellness happiness pleasure pain fulfillment life contentment |
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Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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action wellness wish |
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Think "impossible" and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned , and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words "It's possible," and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest. I believe we are all potentially brilliant and creative--but only if we believe it, only if we have an attitude of positive expectancy toward our ideas, and only if we act on them. |
| Author: |
Greg Anderson |
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The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness |
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dreams projects impossible wellness resources creativity attitude ideas action |
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In relation to others, gratitude is good manners; in relation to ourselves, it is a habit of the heart and a spiritual discipline. |
| Author: |
Daphne Rose Kingma |
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A Grateful Heart edited by M.J. Ryan |
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gratitude attitude habit relationships manners |
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Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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choice response weakness blame problem thought |
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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attitude behavior assumptions perception cynicism |
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The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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effectiveness relationship growth change paradigms character motives victory promises personality self-improvement |
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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character... |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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character habits patterns |
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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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weakness blame mistake learning apology |
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People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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freedom life independence co-dependence |
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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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change principles values self-knowledge vision |
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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proactive circumstances creativity mission vision learning growth |
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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character apology sorry principles values |
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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potential synergy creativity growth learning living values principles |
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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happiness desire sacrifice delayed gratification vision goal |
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Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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perception self-image self-knowledge security understanding love friendship relationships intentions behavior |
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All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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creation planning creativity action |
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As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives--you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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principles values emotion balance work family |
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.' |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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priorities planning responsibility no |
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Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance. |
| Author: |
Stephen Covey |
| Source: |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
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success balance effectiveness business compartmentalization |
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Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity...[and] when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life. |
| Author: |
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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creativity life living fulfillment meaning |
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The Art of Peace begins with you...Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all you encounter. |
| Author: |
Morihei Ueshiba |
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The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba |
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peace relationships friendship love tranquility |
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One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. |
| Author: |
Morihei Ueshiba |
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The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba |
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simplicity power status peace joy happiness life success growth heaven money |
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Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question: It provides one of the most exciting models for living. |
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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problems creativity life living goals positive |
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Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk--the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set. But whereas the first tendency requires little encouragement or support from outside to motivate behavior, the second can wilt if not cultivated. If too few opportunities for curiosity are available, if too many obstacles are put in the way of risk and exploration, the motivation to engage in creative behavior is easily extinguished. |
| Author: |
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
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safety risk exploration creativity energy novelty opportunities behavior |
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'Now' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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time dreams goals action circumstances life living fulfillment procrastination |
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'Doing your own thing' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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obligations talents gifts |
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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do--can love things that no one else can love...We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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gifts talents |
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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life living priorities health |
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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obstacles circumstances fear ignorance reality action |
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.``
Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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action safety success |
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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learning aging life living beginning curiosity |
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People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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regrets mature sorrow sadness change life circumstances |
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When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. |
| Author: |
Barbara Sher |
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I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was |
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criticism anger unkindness meaness critique |
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Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's n |
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