In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance. Vincent Von Goethe.
There are no secrets. To make your idea happens depends on courage, determination – and, of course, hard work. Without these, no idea will ever get off the ground.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
To be open to a new experience, to continually keep on learning sometimes takes courage because it often requires your letting go of an old story or a belief that no longer fits your current thinking or world view.
To know something intellectually is one thing, but to own that thought emotionally is something else all together. It isn’t always easy, but your faith will override your fear.
The secret of getting ahead, wrote Mark Twain, is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks and then start on the first one.
He was right. It’s the first step that is the most important… and the hardest. You can do all the research, put together a comprehensive business plan, but you can’t build a business without laying the first brick.
Keep it simple. Something to keep in mind as you are either just starting or re-starting your business objective for the New Year.
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell.
The times certainly are challenging. If it isn’t one thing, it’s another and it doesn’t look like they are going to let up anytime soon.
Hang on. When the wind’s howling, blowing up a gale, maybe you can’t alter the direction but you can always adjust your sails to reach your objective. What you can’t do is give up on it.
One of my favourite writers is Roger Cohen. A long time resident of Paris, he writes regularly for The New York Times.
Much has been written and posted since the attack on this wonderful city. This past weekend, he wrote about it. When you have the time, take a few minutes out of your day and read his column. Cohen: Betting on Beauty
We all know the stakes. There is hardly anything to add that hasn’t already been said, except, perhaps, to repeat an old expression I recall someone saying a long time ago:
When you are tired of Paris, you are tired of life.
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