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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.”
It’s human nature to come up with every excuse in the book before we finally start something. And a very common excuse we get ourselves to believe is that it’s just not the right time to begin. Sounds like a logical reason. But there’s a difference between the condition being…
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“There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.”
This quote, by Mario Cuomo, paints a picture of success in the most simple way possible. Being successful simply comes down to figuring out exactly what you want to do and then doing it. Of course, there are many other steps that go into each of those. Figuring out exactly…
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
This quote, by Kalu Ndukwe Kalu, puts into perspective what we do during our time on this earth. When we’re gone, we don’t take any of our physical possessions with us. Nor do we take our accomplishments and accolades. So what are all our efforts for when it’s all said…
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“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
Being fast and doing the most in the least time is something we’ve come to praise and idolize as a society. Games, sports, and competitions of mental aptitude are often won by whoever is fastest. There is no reward for the slowest person to win a race, the last person…
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.”
While the definition of failure is subjective, it is true that some things don’t work out. And there are a lot of reasons why they don’t work out. This quote, by the iconic journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, describes one of them as trying to please everyone. Sometimes, it’s just impossible…
