Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino
Of course you can never fail, because every action produces a result (even if only to teach you a difficult lesson).
When your determination to succeed is strong enough whatever happens – good or bad – is just part of the journey.
On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice. – Sam Harris In this construction, wisdom is not some universal thing, applicable to everyone, but ideas and practices that if applied to one’s life are helpful or useful. What is wisdom for you may not be for me. But…
If you want to be miserable, get yourself a future. – Byron Katie There’s a difference between dreaming, goal-setting and planning for the future and being stuck there.* Which are you doing? How’s it going? ***** * Nothing happens in the future, only in the Now.
Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow – Jim Rohn Whatever you said you were going to do “tomorrow,” or “later,” or “soon,” is now due. Just act. However imperfectly, or even incompletely, do something. Get some results, learn something about your actions: Did it work? Great! Why? Build on that information, that feed-forward. Did it not work?…
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint. – Emerson Yes, I am riffing off the recent political meme in the post title. (“Never let a crisis go to waste.” (Attributed, I believe, to Rahm Emanuel).) That aside, Emerson’s words are an extremely valuable reminder. We ignore “failures” and “calamities” at our peril. Every…
In Life there’s what we (really) want and what we do to keep it out of our lives. Yes, you read that correctly. We keep what we want out of our lives by what we do. And what we have in our lives is a perfect reflection of what we’ve done. * * * It’s…
I am a fan of the New York Football Giants. I am also a fan of excellent coaching and execution. As much as I enjoyed the Giants’ victories over the New England Patriots in Superbowls XLII and XLVI, I am also a fan of the Patriots. To say the Patriots under Bill Belichick (BB) are…