Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Never quit

Keeping up with a blog can sometimes get lost in the days, it's not as easy as one would think.  Even though I have it up regularly I seem to look over it, or say to myself, 'ack, I haven't written anything in days...well weeks now' and remind myself I need to.  Then I get sidetracked and move on to one of the thousand other things I feel I have to do.  It's really easy to see how my life has been a scramble of this that or the other thing for the last 36 years...holy cow!  For being a fairly organized person, I sure do have a TON of incomplete projects and long lasting dreams, that seem to fall to the wayside on a regular basis. So I've been cleaning out all my old emails and found this little bit which seems to help alleviate my melon of some of the stress of having all those 'I really need to complete this' projects...

The only way to lose is to quit. As long as you continue
to make the effort, you have not lost. Everyone experiences
setbacks. However, winners experience the most setbacks
because winners persist as long as it takes to win.
Does it ever seem that you are blocked in every direction?
That's the time to get creative, become more flexible, and
open yourself to the possibilities that are most certainly
there.
Sometimes when you get stuck in a rut, the rut can suddenly
and unexpectedly run out. And what a great opportunity that
can be for you to climb out of that rut, look around, and
see all the valuable things you've been missing.
Never quit. Use each setback, each disappointment as a cue
to push on ahead with more determination than ever before.
Never quit, and you will always be a winner.

Ralph Marston


I may not have taken the time to have written a mile of dialogue, but I think this little piece is short, sweet and to the point, so I'll leave you with the idea that it's OK to have incomplete works and projects in your life as long as you don't ever quit and return to see them through to the end.  Always look for the light, always strive to overcome, learn from the errors, pick yourself up when you fall down, dust yourself off and drive to be the Champion we all have locked deep inside of us!