We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are. – Tobias Wolff
I often speak of being grateful for whatever comes your way.
“Good” or “bad.”
Everything is feedback.
Everything is a lesson.
Everything is a springboard.
Whatever happens, use it.
Use “it” to find out what you’re made of, what you really want.
Persist.
If the unexamined life is not worth living, . . . it’s equally true that the unlived life is not worth examining. – Parker Palmer This quote pretty much speaks for itself. Yes, we must examine our lives, and ourselves, continually throughout our lives, but that’s only half of what’s necessary. We must have a…
The most important person you can keep your word to is yourself. I had a thought the other day, and didn’t capture it at the time (bad Matt . . . !), but want to (try to) re-construct it now. The gist was that we have many of the troubles we do in life because we…
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle I am excited to write this post as…
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing. – Phil Jackson You can always win once: be engaged and present with what you’re doing and you’ve won the first victory. To win again, at the end, is nice, but wholly unnecessary….
Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy Speaks for itself . . . .
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Just keep swimming!
Indeed, and, as Churchill said: if you find yourself in Hell, keep going.