Quote

Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.

Steve Pavlina

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steve Pavlina
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 14
Author
Businessperson
Engineer
Programmer
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Purpose
Three
Talents
Come
Requires
Must
Direction
Needs
Focused
Areas
Talent
Passion

More quotes by Steve Pavlina

Image
One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.
Steve Pavlina
Image
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.
Steve Pavlina
Image
It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my own life. If I'm lazy or haphazard in my actions during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to have a fairly lazy and unfocused day.
Steve Pavlina
Image
I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won't die with my music still in me.
Steve Pavlina
Image
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
Steve Pavlina
Image
The only thing stopping you is fear, and the only thing that will get you past it is courage. What you do with your life isn't up to your parents, your boss, or your spouse. It's up to you and you alone.
Steve Pavlina
Image
If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.
Steve Pavlina
Image
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.
Steve Pavlina
Image
I believe we can proactively choose to believe whatever we want instead of merely letting our beliefs coalesce as reactions to events.
Steve Pavlina
Image
When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.
Steve Pavlina
Image
A man doesn't require the approval of others. He's willing to follow his heart wherever it leads him. When a man is following his heart-centered path, it's of little consequence if the entire world is against him.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Whatever happens to me during the course of my life - physically, socially, or financially - I can always choose to focus on giving. When I'm in that state, nothing else matters. I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Thought and action can be perceived as two different dimensions of who you are: the mental you and the physical you
Steve Pavlina
Image
The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.
Steve Pavlina
Image
If you want to experience abundance, then don't choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.
Steve Pavlina
Image
Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.
Steve Pavlina