A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. – B. F. Skinner
Where do you think you’ve “failed?”
Have you given up on “that?”
What if you took what you learned and began again, more intelligently?
What if you didn’t stop trying?
I am considering changing the way I deliver “myself” to you. Currently you receive an e-mail alerting you to each new blog post. I do my best to write a post every weekday. These posts are between 100 and 750 words (lately in the neighborhood of 300). What would you think of one e-mail per…
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe – Oprah Winfrey Or you can aim low and settle for what you end up with . . . . The choice is – always – yours.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur I’ve also heard that the only way you lose is if you give up. It’s true. Failure is deciding that not getting exactly what you want is a bad thing. Everything we do yields a result. Every result can be learned from. Therefore, everything…
“People die of fright and live of confidence.” – Thoreau I think Thoreau, among other things, was speaking of courage here. Confidence is what results when courage (being afraid, but taking a reasonable risk anyway) is combined with purpose (the energy that comes from knowing what we want and why we want it). Is courage…
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt FDR is right, but the quote has become over-used to the point of being trite. Allow me to offer an update of sorts: The only thing we have to fear is not doing that which matters to us and isn’t actually scary.
So many people have heard the old saw “practice makes perfect.” It’s wrong. Just. Plain. Wrong. I was watching a Tim Ferriss Four Hour Life video and he quoted a top chef who says: “practice makes permanent.” It’s true. Absolutely 100% true. What you train, you ingrain. Whatever you practice creates muscle memory and neural pathways…