More Dregs Please...
My oh my, how the time does fly! This week was one of the more interesting weeks I've had in quite some time. Lessons learned? Varied... from how to deal with a case of mistaken identity (it's a doozy!) to how to deal with a client who just can't seem to stay awake during a sales call!
Regardless of the bumps along the way as long as you are focused on the end goal the daily happenings you experience will seem like minor blips on the radar in no time at all. For some of us, not soon enough! Time heals all wounds they say but just yesterday I thought of a memory I hoped had been obliterated from my memory by now. It bothered me that after all of these years it's still there... in the shadows. And gosh darn it I reproduced the very same emotions I experienced in that brief moment in time so long ago. These thoughts are the muck and yuck, the dregs that lurk at the bottom of your existence and threaten to forever taint your very soul... but only if you let them! It's a choice you must make; to take those experiences and mold them into an opportunity for growth.
According to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." Amen to that! If you stop and ponder that thought for a moment you'll realize it's all too true! Without the darkness you cannot cherish the light and without the hurts and disappointments you can't truly appreciate the depths of joy and the thrills of victory. Life is meant to be a succession of highs and lows for a reason. If you come to grips with this and you understand that it is part of the process you can move forward with a renewed vigor that may just surprise you.
In the book Go For No!, Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz discuss the mistaken belief people have that failure is on one side of the equation, success on the other, and that they are in the middle. But friends it doesn't work like that. You must blast through failure in order to achieve success. The failures will catapult you to the promised land of milk and honey you've longed and dreamed for! And the more you embrace this concept the more successful you will be.
As for the dregs... use them as fodder for growth. Plants need more than just sunshine and water. If you toss in a bit of manure you may have to hold your nose for a bit but eventually you'll have some of the sweetest roses you've ever smelled! As Jack Canfield is fond of teaching, it's about the reactions you have to life's events that produce your outcome. The reaction you have is of your own making; so it has been whether you were aware of it or not and so it shall always be.
To Your Success!
Regardless of the bumps along the way as long as you are focused on the end goal the daily happenings you experience will seem like minor blips on the radar in no time at all. For some of us, not soon enough! Time heals all wounds they say but just yesterday I thought of a memory I hoped had been obliterated from my memory by now. It bothered me that after all of these years it's still there... in the shadows. And gosh darn it I reproduced the very same emotions I experienced in that brief moment in time so long ago. These thoughts are the muck and yuck, the dregs that lurk at the bottom of your existence and threaten to forever taint your very soul... but only if you let them! It's a choice you must make; to take those experiences and mold them into an opportunity for growth.
According to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." Amen to that! If you stop and ponder that thought for a moment you'll realize it's all too true! Without the darkness you cannot cherish the light and without the hurts and disappointments you can't truly appreciate the depths of joy and the thrills of victory. Life is meant to be a succession of highs and lows for a reason. If you come to grips with this and you understand that it is part of the process you can move forward with a renewed vigor that may just surprise you.
In the book Go For No!, Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz discuss the mistaken belief people have that failure is on one side of the equation, success on the other, and that they are in the middle. But friends it doesn't work like that. You must blast through failure in order to achieve success. The failures will catapult you to the promised land of milk and honey you've longed and dreamed for! And the more you embrace this concept the more successful you will be.
As for the dregs... use them as fodder for growth. Plants need more than just sunshine and water. If you toss in a bit of manure you may have to hold your nose for a bit but eventually you'll have some of the sweetest roses you've ever smelled! As Jack Canfield is fond of teaching, it's about the reactions you have to life's events that produce your outcome. The reaction you have is of your own making; so it has been whether you were aware of it or not and so it shall always be.
To Your Success!
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