What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
Barbara SherDoing 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 SherReal obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara SherEach destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
Barbara SherEvery time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around.
Barbara Sher