Steve Pavlina (born April 14, 1971) is an American self-help author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He is the author of the web site stevepavlina.com and the book Personal Development for Smart People.
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
You are too free and untamable to be labeled.
The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.
Replace "Have to" with "Want to. "
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
People in their early 20s are invariably weird.
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.
To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.
If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.
Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
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.
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it
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.
By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
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.
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.
Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.
It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.
Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it