![]() You’ll likely have experiences that would have taken much longer to gain if you kept taking baby steps through life.Arnold Henry Glasow was born around 1905 in the United States of America. When you’re breathing properly again, you’ll be greater for the wear and tear. And, just keep chewing as fast as you possibly can. #milewalktips īite off more than you can chew. ![]() Success is more like, uh, an intermission. Check out How to Figure Out Your Purpose in Life in Fewer Than 600 Words and 7 Signs You Found Your Purpose. A life lived with purpose trumps dollars any day. You’re never as trapped as you think you are. ![]() You keep going through the motions even though your body feels like a shell with no soul. You’ve become accustomed to a lifestyle thanks to a career you don’t love. Your profession more than pays the bills. Success is more like, uh, an intermission.įocus on success rather than your purpose. You will never understand balance unless you’ve been out of balance. It took an hour for the imprints to dissipate from your cheek thanks to face plant you did on your keyboard. By “too much” I mean you were so exhausted you fell asleep at your desk. The dealer wanted to clip her for a few thousand dollars because she drove it out of the showroom.Ĭan’t wait for the kids to refresh Mom’s memory of this story next time she tells them leaving their green beans untouched is wasteful. (I’m not clever enough to make this stuff up.) Turns out she bought the same model he has and managed to choose the same color as well. She wanted to return the (brand) new car she purchased a few weeks earlier because her husband was upset. Last year, my wife and I were in a car dealership when a woman walked in. I am referring to the I-should’ve-just-lit-the-money-on-fire moments. I’m not talking about getting nipped with ATM bank fees or eating out too often. I love the Winston Churchill quote, “Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking your potential.” Think about that free gift you don’t value nearly as much as something for which you paid $100. You haven’t sacrificed enough effort to care. The alternative is you disregard it because it came so easily. When examined in its wake, however, you’ll understand only time reveals what’s good or bad.Īnything that comes too easily oftentimes results in one of two outcomes. While you’re easily succeeding, this won’t appear a mistake. He was so upset he launched Da Bulls to three more championships after he returned!īecome successful with little effort. ![]() This eye-cringing effort drove His Airness right back to the basketball court where he belonged. 202 Batting Average, 114 Strike Outs, and 11 Errors. Think Michael Jordan trying-to-play-baseball awful: 127 Games. The slice of humble pie should be so large and awful it drives you straight to what you were born to do. When embraced, the humiliation will become purifying and liberating. Fail in such horrific fashion there’ll be no mistaking you should ever try it again. “We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”įail miserably. This quote from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen comes to mind. You’ll have better fortune if you’re committed to your own thoughts and direction even if you’re headed in the wrong direction. I’m sure you’ve forgotten every time you trusted someone else’s alternate opinion only to discover you were correct. Trust someone’s opinion other than your own. The sooner you do, the more time you’ll have to enjoy life! I’ve titled it 7 Great “Mistakes” You Need to Make for Yourself. Here are a few of my self-inflicted doozies-the ones you simply can’t simulate from someone else’s translation. I thought why not just go with that? What are some of the greatest, most painful mistakes I’ve ever made? Well, I can’t carry a tune to save my life, but I can write. I’ve heard singers and songwriters share stories regarding how they produce their best songs when they channel their pain. Instead of fighting these bad vibrations and unforced errors, I thought I’d embrace them. Worst of all, I haven’t been catching those breaks that typically make an appearance with some level of frequency. I’ve become overwhelmed by the important and unimportant to-dos on my desk. For some strange reason, I’ve been too-frequently bumping my bad elbow on the wall corners in my home. My swimming strokes don’t have that usual effortless cadence. Others, like my current one, appear to invade multiple aspects of my life no matter how healthy, vibrant, successful, or perfect any of them seem at a given moment. No one escapes the occasional rough patch here and there. For the last few weeks (which means much longer), I’ve battled through each day.Īs wonderful as my life is, I struggle just like you do. I’ve been out of sync with the world lately.
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