A Quote I'm Thinking About
“Fail early and get it all over with. If you learn to deal with failure… you can have a worthwhile career. You learn to breathe again when you embrace failure as a part of life, not as the determining moment of life.
— Rev. William L. Swig”
Wisdom right?
On Perfect Friendships
Ever read something and spit out what you are drinking with a good belly laugh?
I just spit out my tea when I read this:
“We instantly connected and knew that if left unsupervised by responsible adults we could get into all kinds of trouble if we became friends.
So we became friends.”
This made me laugh because it captured in words something so magical when it happens. Life is richer... struggles more bearable... because they grant you total freedom to be yourself.
I hope you have such friends!
Don't Fall Into This Trap
“Every single day on which you don’t start, you are ingraining the habit of passivity more deeply into your mind and body." — unknown
I read the above quote a couple of times today and thought I'd share it with you. If you let passivity rule, you are doing nothing. Nothing to further your goals. Nothing to take control over your life. Nothing to turn your dreams into reality.
In short, you are letting things happen to you. Instead of going out there and doing things.
I'm reminded of a Leonardo Da Vinci quote I like: “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things”
When you don’t start today, you probably won’t start tomorrow, either. Your future self is probably not going to be all that different from your current self — unless you start making the necessary changes today.
“What is the single step that I...
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Charlene Fike
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Lover of ideas, a serial entrepreneur, a digital nomad, a gourmet cook, an endlessly curious reader, an adventurous traveler, a synergistic networker, and a champion of creative projects large and small.
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