There are many problems in life where the solution is largely a brainless time investment.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Life
Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Values
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Hard Work
No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Thoughts
Planning allows you to mentally create a model of your future.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Thoughts
Responsibility and self-discipline give you the freedom to be more spontaneous because you won’t risk abusing your freedom.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Freedom
The purpose of your existence is yours alone to discover.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Life
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Hard Work
Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Attitude
So act boldly, as if it’s impossible to fail. If you keep adding fuel to your desire, you will reach the point of knowing that you’ll never quit, and ultimate success will be nothing more than a matter of time.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Success
The stuff that’s most important to me in life can’t be bought—it can only be earned.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Values
Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Death
Catching a glimpse of your own greatness can be one of the most unsettling experiences imaginable.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Experience
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work… I’ve found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Ideal, Sin, Work
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Courage
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this problem keeps coming up in your life, staring you in the face?. Do you think you’re supposed to ignore it and hide from it and wait for someone else to solve it for you?. If you notice it, you own it.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Challenges
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.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Success, Discipline, Hard Work
The more you learn, the more you become aware of what you have yet to learn.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Learning
The path that does not require courage is the called the slow lane.
—Steve Pavlina
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.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Waste, Decision, Action, Decisions, Act, Experience
If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.
—Steve Pavlina
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it’s something you’re tremendously passionate about.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Passion
It’s funny how when we stop resisting our problems, they reveal themselves to be opportunities.
—Steve Pavlina
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Achievement
Courage is a learned mental skill that you must condition, just as weight training strengthens your muscles.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Courage
Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Willpower
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.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Thoughts
If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Time
Reading is a lot like physical exercise. Reading is a workout for the brain.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Reading
Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.
—Steve Pavlina
Topics: Willpower
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