I take everyday of my life as a learning opportunity. With each day and new experience I pick up something new and learn something that I can use later on in my life. I've learned more from my own failures than I have from my own successes. I've learned from watching others fail, but I've learned more by watching other people succeed.
As individuals all we can really do is try to become better each day. We must realize that all of us have the potential within to become something great, but we can't reach our potential without hard work and dedication. I read an article today that talked about President John F. Kennedy.
He challenged the nation to commit itself to achieve the goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.
In this article he was quoted as saying, " In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the Moon; it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there."
President Kennedy also said, " We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win."
My favorite quote of the whole article was when he said, "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
This really made me sit back and reflect on my own life. As we all know nothing in life comes easy and life isn't exactly scripted or how we planned it, but it's that way for a reason.
We are where we are in life because of the bad decisions we've made and because of the good decisions we've made. Both the good and the bad have brought us to this moment, but that doesn't mean that our lives are set in stone because of what we've already decided.
More good and bad decisions have yet to be made and they will greatly influence where we go and what we'll be doing in the next decade and further on. It's never too late to reach your dreams or achieve what you wanted in life, but you can't do it without purpose or direction.
If we want to be somewhere in ten or twenty years we have to look back at our decisions and learn from them. We also have to prepare ourselves for more mistakes and failures and accept those as positive learning experiences. They must be looked at as part of the process and path to our destination.
We can't always settle for the easy way just because it is convenient or because you feel it is the only choice you have. Everyone in life has options and opportunities; they just have to be created by the individual.
President Kennedy was right when he said we have to challenge ourselves and we have to win. We can't keep postponing our dreams or goals.
Once again don't be afraid to fail or make mistakes because those failures and mistakes will only teach you more and will make you stronger. Learn from other people's failures, but more importantly learn from their successes. Find someone in your life or in your career field that you see as a success and learn from them.
Anyone has the ability to achieve anything they want to, but it has to start with them believing in themselves. If the dream is worth it; then so are the sweat and tears that go into it. Giving up should never be an option because with every failure you are one step closer to success.
So today challenge yourself to reach your dream or reach a goal that you may have. Don't do it because it's easy; do it because it is hard. More importantly do it because it's what you want and because it's worth it.
Accidentally Smart
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