Posts tagged steve pavlina

Do What You Love

Jan 30th

Posted by John in Balance

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I can claim none of what follows as my own, and I am indeed still learning to put into practice the things listed below.  The following comes from Steve Pavlina as his Twitter posts, and I think they are brilliant and should be shared with all:

Do what you love -> get good at it -> share your talent to create value for others -> receive value in return -> do more of what you love.


Since many people are worried about the economy, there’s greater demand and more opportunities for people who aren’t worried.


If you have trouble discovering what you love, start by dropping from your life that which you don’t love. Purge the wrong answers first.


If you love doing X, then do X. Don’t do things you dislike because you think it will give you the chance to do X. Just do X. No excuses.


If you love helping people heal, you can start doing that today… long before you graduate from med school. Again, dump the excuses.


If you want to be a rocket scientist, take the time to learn the skills you need. Meanwhile, go build & launch some model rockets this week.


Pretend you died yesterday and lost all. Then live this day as the first day of your afterlife. Harder to make excuses when you’re dead. :)


If you turn toward what you love, you’ll be staring directly into your greatest fear. Don’t look away. Take a bold, brave step forward.


Doing what you love is challenging. Doing what you don’t love is pointless.


Think about it…

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Gone In 60 Seconds

Nov 2nd

Posted by John in General

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I was up this morning looking over the things to do for the day, and I became overwhelmed for a moment. The large to-do list loomed over me, threatening to drag me down into the icy depths (still on the Halloween dramatical kick, yes).

Have you ever been in a similar situation… All of the things in your life are screaming out for your attention and the stress just gets to be too much and what usually happens is you just don’t do anything, or you spend all your time thinking about what you need to do, instead of actually doing it.

I was trying to decide what to write about today, when I remembered a great piece of advice from Steve Pavlina — Give yourself 60 seconds to think about a decision… Any decision in your life, and then decide, and immediately begin doing whatever it is you have decided.

Practicing this will greatly improve your decision making skills, productivity, time management, and a whole host of other things that will add to your success.

Try it out.

I’ve been practicing this way of making decisions for about three weeks now, and I can tell you that I’ve been crossing things off my list, left and right. In fact, I usually find that I’m so productive, that I run out of things to do for the day, and I’m left trying to figure out how to spend all my extra time.

But as they said on Reading Rainbow… don’t take my word for it. Try it for yourself.

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