The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
Barbara SherRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Fear and lack of information can create false obstacles, but confronting reality can provide relief and clarity.
This quote emphasizes the power of fear and ignorance in creating imaginary obstacles that can feel insurmountable. It suggests that when faced with the unknown, our fears can amplify our doubts, making real challenges seem daunting. However, by taking a step towards reality, regardless of our readiness, we can often find clarity and solutions that dispel these imagined barriers.
Themes
FearObstaclesRealityInformationAction
In practice
Example use cases
Using this quote in a motivational speech to encourage individuals to face their fears and take action.
More from Barbara Sher
All quotes →Find out what you love._x000D_ Do it because you love it._x000D_ Stick with it._x000D_ Start now.
Barbara SherRead
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.
Barbara SherRead
Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Barbara SherRead
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.
Barbara SherRead
Similar quotes
Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
Jules FeifferRead
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
William JamesRead
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.
Jay ShettyRead
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma GandhiRead
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.
J. D. SalingerRead
Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead