Archive for December 26th, 2007
Courage
Taken immediately after smoke from a nearby fire ‘clouded’ the sun …
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~Winston Churchill
Courage shines through adversity. It is the constant that will create opportunities from obstacles; and allow one to press through the immediate in order to live “on-purpose” (instead of by accident).
Focus on where you want to go from here. There is an entire new year awaiting your willingness to move through this moment and decide that life goes on and your life will, too.
If you want to attempt to excuse yourself from setting goals by making the claim, “I don’t know how to …”) here is a news flash: You do know. We all know the answers we seek in the midst of life’s dilemmas.
Do we get turned around in our emotionally-driven lives? Sure.
But when we exit and check (or create!) the map, we find our way.
Then, we can put our life in Drive and resume our journey. And — this is key — avoid the detour, and ultimately, the dead-end of an all-or-nothing attitude (read: purge the pursuit of perfection)!
Courage shines through adversity.
Tenacity
Light
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas Alva Edison
Reach the unreachable stars …
Possibilities …
pos·si·bil·i·ty (pŏs’ə-bĭl’ĭ-tē)
n. pl. pos·si·bil·i·ties
- The fact or state of being possible.
- Something that is possible.
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Promise of a New Year
New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
