#neededtoreadthis

[anggdarling]

You don't get to choose, you just fall in love and you get this person who is all wrong and all right at the same time. And you know you love them so much except sometimes they drive you completely insane - no one can explain it. And the reason it's so confusing is because it's love, and if love didn't have challenges, what would be the point?

[lynn182]

It sounds simple but that doesn’t mean it’s been easy. And the truth is, if it was so easy, we’d probably get bored and move on. Not only that, but the really juicy stuff of life – the amazing relationship, the purpose-filled career, the creative mastery that we dream of and aspire to – have to be earned. And the way that we earn it is by using the rejections, failures and challenges along the way as stepping stones, rather than allowing them to become stumbling blocks. We earn it by being so resolute in our willingness to keep going and so committed to our vision and our goals that we stop at nothing to realize them. We may go through ten “wrong relationships” before we find the one that lasts a lifetime. We may hear a hundred “No’s” before we finally hear the “YES” that changes everything. The important thing is to remember that it’s all part of the growing process and that each experience is an indispensable piece of the final puzzle.

http://thedailylove.com/turn-rejection-into-a-stepping-stone/

[sherfluidity]

Reach for your Goals

Don't give up on your dreams and especially don't give up on your goals because your goals are the stepping stones on a staircase to reaching ur dreams. Without goals, you won't have anything to stand on. You'll just be looking at a location without a method of travels. So even if you lose sight of the big picture, never stop reaching for your goals. ------ -04/11/13 I needed to remember this.

[kimberlygkim]

excuses. so many of us get caught up in why we can’t or why we don’t. excuses come so easily, they just roll off our tongues with little or no thought. reasons why something can’t be done. here we are at the ripe old age of whatever, where we hopefully have one-third of our lives still ahead of us. isn’t there something we should be doing with it? should we just sit back and enjoy how far we’ve come or should we continue to slay dragons on our journey forward? have you achieved all that you’ve set to out to achieve, or are you sitting back making excuses for why you’re not going further? is there more on your bucket list? and if not, why not? chances are there’s still time to get much accomplished and perhaps to even make a difference. maybe you already have, but is that reason enough to glide through the rest of the journey? maybe you’re not motivated by making a difference, but have always just wanted to _____. go ahead and fill in what you once had dreamed of doing but haven’t done yet.

it’s always a surprise to listen to friends and acquaintances talk about what they’re going to do. my question, politely phrased i think, is just how much longer do you think you have? when exactly are you going to live out this dream and what’s holding you back? if you really want to do it, why don’t you? the reasons, of course, are many: time, money, resources, training or lack of knowledge. but from where i sit, it all just sounds like more excuses. what if Christopher Columbus had said, “But I don’t know the way,” or if Steve Jobs thought, “I didn’t finish college.” then there’s Ken Burns who could’ve said, “I don’t have the right camera.” or Bill Gates who didn’t realize, “You can’t do that in a garage.” and how about if Thomas Jefferson had said, “We don’t have 15 million dollars.” west of the Mississippi, we’d all be speaking French. Thomas Edison could’ve said, “Whoops, guess that’s not going to work.”

interesting what happens when we break free of excuses and how they can get in the way of our progress.

life is a challenge as you well know, and each day if you’re out in the world there are more challenges. Dave Freeman and Neil Teplica wrote in their popular title 100 Things to Do Before You Die,that you could be crushed, gored, burned, frozen, drowned, run over, electrocuted, infected, punctured or dehydrated, all of which are fairly good reasons for not doing something. but consider this, more than half of those negative experiences could happen when you get out of bed in the morning.

are you going to get to the end and say, “My gosh what did I miss?" or will you run down the litany of one of our favorite themes of shoulda, coulda and woulda? well chances are good there’s still time. maybe it would be worthwhile taking a quick read through the 100 Things to do Before You Die and then create a list of possibles.

keep in mind, we’re only going this way once and the clock is ticking. isn’t it time to live that dream, or leave that mark, or make a change, or finish that bucket list? don’t you think it’s time to be done with the excuses and get on with it? as my friend Laurie, a no-excuse kind of girl, says, the choices come down to would you rather have it end by falling off the couch or by schussing down the double-black diamond ski trail? your choice.

source: “OutLook by the Bay” - From the Desk of Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Tecla Emerson Murphy

[wordsfromthekid]

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. 

Joshua 1:9