The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. Orsen Welles.
If you’re starting out another week feeling good about yourself and what you’re doing, no need to read further – but if you’re not, here are 5 questions you might want to ask yourself:
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
Are you holding on to something you need to let go of ?
When is it time to stop calculating risk vs. rewards and just do what you know is right?
Do you celebrate the things you have?
When was the last time you tried something new?
It isn’t easy today, not that it ever really was… any one of the above can trip you up and hold you back.
It’s up to you.
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Whether you are gathering a tribe or reaching out for new members finding them is up to you.
Today when it appears so much easier and faster to connect with those people who are waiting to hear from you and be included, gathering a tribe doesn’t happen overnight. It is one a time, ten by ten…soon the few will become many, a community of like minds.
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we do not give up after a mistake, when something doesn’t come easily, but we throw ourselves into trying when we are not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. Sharon Salzberg.
The people who are good in the long run often stumble in the beginning. Sometimes more than once. We just don’t see the initial failures.
So if you fail when you first start out, it is well to remember that failing is just part of the deal on the road to ultimate success.
Every failure is a chance to learn and grow some more and to do better the next time.
Becoming good in the long run is the result of your effort, tenacity and executing smartly.
Have you ever noticed? The funny thing is, the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.
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Life is about choices, the most fundamental one of which is how you view life.
Today, constantly buffeted by a steady diet of negativity, fear and pessimism it is easy to think that life is just about the money – or you can think it is a wonderful, magical ride, albeit with with many bumps and unexpected sharp curves and sharp curves, but well worth the ticket.
Listen to the words of the late Saul Bellow. Say them out loud so you hear your own voice:
If you think that historical forces are sending everybody straight to hell, you can either go resignedly with the procession or hold out, and hold out not from pride or other personal motives, but from admiration and love for human abilities and powers which, without exaggeration, the words ‘miracle’ and ‘sublimity’ can be applied.
The choice is yours…
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Have you ever felt that time is no longer on your side? If only you could stop the clock or turn it back?
In his famous, I Have a Dream speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently reminded us that:
“We are faced with the fact, my friends, tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood – it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, “Too late.”
Many of us, from time to time, feel similar sentiments, especially today. These are uncommon times. Uncertainty, negativity and fear are everywhere.
We all face barriers and challenges of one kind or another and have setbacks occasionally. That’s how life goes. It’s the familiar dance – one step forward, two steps back.
In the dance of life, time waits for no one. The trick is to keep dancing – and remember that it’s never over ’till it’s over and the fat lady sings.
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