Buy 1 and Get 1 Free!!!!! We all love seeing that sign in a store and most likely will bite and take advantage of it. It is a "Two-Fer". 2 for 1. If I said that you could do something and get twice the reward, you most likely would take that offer every time. We all want MORE for our work. Well, I have great news for you ... we will always get more WHEN WE WORK hard. We get the results of our hard work but more importantly, we will learn a ton and build character and skills when we work hard. "Chop your own wood, it will warm you twice" Henry Ford
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Too many people are waiting around for someone to tell them that they are great or to hear that someone believes in them. Believe in yourself!!!!! Start with you!! Then your belief becomes contagious and you will find that a bunch of people will start to believe in you and then your wait for someone to believe in you is over. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." Theodore Roosevelt
We have a brain for a reason. We need to think about things. We have a body for a reason. We need to do things. Choice is when we make a decision and behavior is when we take our decision and put it into action. We may fail but at least we gave ourselves a chance to succeed. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” Tina Fey
Unfortunately, we lean towards "not doing" something, instead of "doing something that may be wrong". It takes a long time to figure out our "why". "Why am I here and what should I be doing?". However, we must be willing to "try and fail" or we will never rule out what we "are not", on our way to figuring out "who we can be". "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born... and the day you find out why.” Mark Twain
How many times? How many times will we fail? How many times will it take to get it right? How many? One of the biggest barriers to success is expectation. If we expect to be good at something the first time, then when failure occurs, quitting follows. But when we expect that it will take multiple failures before we succeed, then each failure is like a step on a long flight of stairs. You can't step on the last step until you step on the previous steps in order. Failure IS the process toward success. "Fall seven times, stand up eight" Chinese Proverb.
Over time we CAN get better. However, it is important WHAT we do with that time. There are tons of older people who are not very good at various things. And there are a lot of young people who crush specific aspects of life. Time is only valuable if you invest in valuable things with your time.
"When you are not practicing, someone else is getting better." Allen Iverson "Uncomfortable doesn't mean bad, uncomfortable simply means you're doing something you haven't done before," Joe Vitale When we seek comfort, we seek being 'basic" and reaching our goals will be impossible unless we set "basic" goals. When we choose discomfort, we choose to achieve more than our most ambitious goals. "Be comfortable being uncomfortable." says anyone who has ever been successful in anything in life.
Preparation is essential to success. At some point you need to start the car and start driving or you end up idling in the driveway wasting gas and time. 'If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.' - Bruce Lee
We can either waste time or we can spend our time wisely. However, when we see "time as money" or at least see our time as being a valuable resource, and that when we invest that time in valuable endeavors, we will see much larger returns on our investment of time. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. – Stephen R. Covey.
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult
Today may be a rough day. We all need to be reminded that life is hard and it is supposed to be full of tough days. By design, we have been created with the capacity to handle a lot more than we think. By design, each time we handle hard things, we get better handling hard things. “On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin.” Gregory S. Williams |
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