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Take the risk – it’ll either be a blessing or a lesson.
– Men’s Health magazine
What reasons do you have for talking yourself out of taking a risk? If it poses an outcome that will leave you worse off then maybe it’s a risk not worth taking. Most of the time we find ourselves scared of change just because it’s the unknown. But that’s what makes life a journey.
Make your journey count. Staying in a safe bubble of familiarity can be, well safe. But progress isn’t made by standing still.
“Just do it”
-Nike
It’s as simple as that. “Just do it”. Try, seize the opportunity.
Ask her out, apply for the job, go where you have not gone before.
Maybe you’ll fail, maybe you’ll succeed – but you will know.
Winston Churchill once said, “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
– Have the wisdom and maturity to see the lesson in each failure and let it teach you and motivate you to move on to the next challenge, and succeed.
“Brick walls are there to show you that you want it bad enough.”
– Randy Pausch
Author of The Last lecture
“Weak men wait for opportunities; great men make them.” — Orison Swett Marden
“A shark can never give up, the moment it stops swimming it drowns
. Maybe that’s why it’s the most feared creature if the sea”
– everyday life lessons
Recommended book: The Shark and the Goldfish by Jon Gordon
Some of you may be old enough to remember the black and white western tv show “the Lone Ranger.” Other may only remember his black mask and trusty horse “silver.” But I came across an article recently in a trade magazine that outlined the morals by which the Lone Ranger lived. After reading it I thought it was fitting to post. If more men followed these timeless tidbits we might all be a little better off.
THE CREED OF THE LONE RANGER
• I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one.
• I believe that all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
• I believe that God put the firewood there, but that every man must gather and light it himself.
• I believe in being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right.
• I believe a man should make the most of the equipment he has.
• I believe that men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number.
• I believe that sooner or later.. Somewhere, somehow, we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken.
• I believe that all things change but truth, and that alone lives on forever.
• I believe in my creator, my country, and my fellow man
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