I now ask myself, “If I know what I am doing is wrong, why am I doing it?” Just STOP! The biggest waste of talent, care, interest in others and progression is doing the things we know we shouldn’t. It takes time to think about those time wasters. It takes time to waste all that…
Success Requires Interest AND Activity In a previous post I wrote titled, Focus for Success, I examined how focus requires attention to work and that attention is a finite resource we all have. Together with attention, Focus requires that we also have interest and activity in what we are doing to succeed. To have an interest in something according…
Focus in writing is what every writer needs to do. Focus on getting words on paper. Focus for success in whatever you do, is setting those goals and achieving them. This lesson has been a hard one to learn! It’s “Focus for Success”, Dummy! This has been the phrase that has been swimming around my head…
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get back up! Chinese Proverb I recently received a message from a friend and the message read fine until the bottom of the last paragraph where it read, “I feel like a failure”. These words ran through my mind and I wondered for a long time why…
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. Ramana Maharshi There is a reason why you have to wait for success! You need to be tested, and you also need to know within yourself that this is what you want to do!
It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to learn the lessons from failure. Bill Gates A few months ago I wrote a post on how I could not fail now! I didn’t publish it as I was caught up digging a garden up and generally wandering around. Last night as I…