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81 " Life is too short to do what doesn’t matter, "
― Jeff Goins , The Art of Work
82 " pining for what could have been only holds people back from living their lives now. "
83 " Life is full of surprises, and it doesn’t help us to fixate on regrets or try to recover what has been lost. "
84 " This is where experts differ from the rest of us. They recognize the resistance we all feel but instead choose to see it as a sign of how close they are to their goal. "
85 " Our lives are haunted by the ghosts of what might have been. "
86 " Our responsibility is not to hoard our gifts but to use them in challenging ways so that others can benefit. "
87 " We can’t control what life throws our way, but we can control how we react to it. "
88 " Every hero’s journey included some sacred task that culminated in a deeper understanding of who they were born to be. "
89 " Think of it this way: if the practice is enjoyable, then you aren’t growing. Muscle grows through strain and stress that create tiny tears in the muscle fiber and cause it to expand. Skills and knowledge are developed the same way. "
90 " A calling may be many things, but it is not fair. Still, you must answer it. "
91 " But when we look at those who achieve extraordinary success, we see people “who recognize luck and seize it, leaders who grab luck events and make much more of them. "
92 " Fulfillment isn’t just for the elite few who find a purpose for life; it’s for everyone. "
93 " It’s one thing to chalk up successes to good fortune, especially when they belong to someone else, and quite another to recognize that we live in a world of opportunity and we all can do something with what we’ve been given. "
94 " It will take a few tries before you get your calling right. Failure isn’t what prevents us from success, then. It’s what leads us there. "
95 " Remember: your vocation is more of a magnum opus than a single masterpiece. It’s an entire body of work, not a single piece. "
96 " Fear, indecision, not knowing—these are the obstacles that keep you from moving forward. And they never go away. But if you are going to find what you were meant to do, you will have to act anyway. What I am trying to say here is that a calling takes work. Finding yours will require a fear-facing journey that will last a lifetime. And where does it begin? With awareness. With discovering what your life is already saying to you. "
97 " clarity of calling comes more through a series of deliberate decisions than it does through any sudden revelation. "
98 " Maybe the worst way to be happy is to try to be happy. "
99 " That you respond to the call, not how, is what makes it extraordinary. "
100 " What he learned from this tale of two desks and his struggle with an addiction that nearly cost him his family was that “life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around. "