Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do. – Confucius
People confuse glory, and success, with never failing.
Quite the contrary.
Success, and glory, consists of getting back up each time you get knocked down.
Of learning from non-desired outcomes and beginning again, with wisdom and humility.
The only real failure is in staying down.
What is the secret behind every tragic misstep on the path to success? It happens right here: People believe their emotions have an external cause. That’s it. That’s the only real problem. – Steve Chandler * * * Your emotions create your experience, the visceral, palpable real part of your experience. You create your emotions. (By…
Here’s a short, but oh so sweet, post from Seth Godin: Hope and expectation Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work. Expectation is the killer of joy, the shortest route to disappointment. When we expect that something will happen, we can’t help but be let down… * * *…
Discern. Distinguish. Decide. Just three words, but they are such powerful words. Mastering the true meanings of these words will have a huge impact of anyone’s life. What do these words mean? Discern Discernment is both the ability to aware of something and place it in context. The first part is awareness: you must have…
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso Some people have a vague sense that we can play a role in how things seem. But this sense is – generally – woefully incomplete, and below (our) consciousness. We do play a role in how things…
I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. – Mike Ditka Let’s get real. Let’s put aside fantasies about what we think we want. Let’s put aside marketing-fueled thoughts of how you might feel if you bought such-and-such thing or traveled to some far-off place, or whatever is being sold…
Fear comes from the future, and discouragement comes from the past. Both obsessions are linear mistakes. – Steve Chandler The mistake we make with time is that we think it’s a linear progression, with a now and two “thens” (past and future) and all the points in-between. It’s not that. It’s just not. There is…