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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.

Barbara Sher

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Barbara Sher
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 14
Died: 2020
Died: May 10
Author
Essayist
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Wrong
Jump
Eye
Shut
Happens
Task
Inadequacies
Hands
Tasks
Nervousness
Right
Focus
Squeeze
Thing
Hand
Inadequacy
Wonderful
Shifts
Eyes
Imagined

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