I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

by Barbara Sher

action is absolutely essential for people who don’t know what they want.

There’s a practicality in our longings that’s beyond rational thought. Your desire will point you in the right direction better than any rules or well-meant advice.

I’ve already given you four good reasons to swing into action as soon as possible: 1) it helps you think, 2) it puts a shine on your self-image, 3) it invites good luck in the form of information or opportunities, and 4) it sharpens your instincts.

Picasso wasn’t trying to help anybody.

Because we don’t really know what adventure is. To assume that it is radical and requires the sacrifice of our entire lifestyle is to create a fiction that actually helps us stand still.

Frustration is supposed to create action, not make you give up.