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?
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. – Josephus Daniels . . . when you give up. When you stop learning and trying. When you decide that (the illusion of) safety and stagnation is better than intelligent risks and action. Losing is not defeat. “Failure” is not defeat. Not-getting-what-you-want is not defeat….
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also…
A man who wants to do something will find a way; A man who doesn’t will find an excuse. – Stephen Dolley, Jr. It matters less what the ultimate result is; only that one has started, and worked, and learned, and adapted, and finished “something.” Or we can make up a story about why we can’t…
It’s okay that you haven’t worked as hard as you could have. It’s okay that you’ve chosen safety over risk. It’s okay that you’ve been less than you are. It’s okay because it’s in the past. But it’s not okay anymore. It’s not okay for you to read this and keeping mailing-it-in. It’s not okay to…
The mind is everything. What you think, you become. – Buddha I’ll keep posting stuff like this until I get it.* * * * * I’m working on it, but it make take a while . . . .
Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil. – Anonymous The mind loves clarity. Without clarity the mind – actually, our emotions – reverts to safety. Safety, for our emotional brain (the limbic system), is habit and routines and whatever has been shown to contribute to our survival (even if…