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Tomorrow is moving day! As you can imagine, we're pretty busy around here right now. Hopefully we'll get everything done and have a smooth move. We're trying to finish up the packing today. Ariel has been sent off to her grandparents, and Gage will join her tomorrow, since I really don't want to be worrying about him as the movers do all their work.
Gage doesn't have his helmet on for now! We'll know soon enough if that's temporary or permanent, but he outgrew the old one. We should be getting word from the doctor soon as to whether or not he wants to see Gage to determine if a new helmet is advised or if his head shape is adequate now. I really hope we're done, although I do agree with the therapist that his head is just a little squared off yet. But it's incredibily improved from the long oval it used to be. The question is, of course, how badly will it's current shape show as he grows. The oval didn't look too bad, but on adults it is quite obvious. If the same is true of his current shape, I won't mind continuing the therapy.
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Does it surprise you that only 400 cokes were sold the first year; Albert Einstein's Ph.D. dissertation was rejected; Henry Ford had two bankruptcies before his famous success; or Ulysses S. Grant was working as a handyman, written off as a failure, eight years before becoming President of the United States?
Rodin couldn't get into art school on three occasions yet became a great sculptor; Abraham Lincoln lost seven elections before winning the Presidency; Babe Ruth stuck out 1,330 times in route to hitting 714 home runs; and Oprah Winfrey publicly failed several diet attempts before becoming an inspiration for looking great after fifty.
Setbacks, disappoints, rejections and unsuccessful attempts were not failures to these people. They were steps to their success. That's the difference between people who are winning at working and people who aren't. How you deal with your setbacks (big or small) will determine your results. You see, failure is not the lack of success. Failure is staying down when you trip or stumble. It's giving up, checking out, or shutting down.
I wasn't a failure when I was fired from my first professional job, although for awhile I felt like one, and I could have been if I'd lost my confidence and given up on my career aspirations. I wasn't a failure when I was passed over for a coveted promotion I'd worked years for, but I could have been if I'd let that setback determine my future. And I wasn't a failure every time I pitched an idea that got turned down, but I could have been if I'd stopped pitching ideas.
You see, in twenty years in management, for every "yes" I've gotten in my career that's visible, there's least five "no's" that aren't. For every success I've achieved, there's at least as many misses. Yet when we look at other people's successes, we miss the struggles, frustrations and disappointments that came before them, so we think their success was easy.
How you view your disappointments, falls, and setbacks will impact your success. Do you see them as stepping stones or brick walls? People who are winning at working live Ralph Waldo Emerson's words, "Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories."
People who are winning at working don't blame others for what's happened to them, and they don't use other people's definitions for success and failure. They use their own. They know it's not failing to miss their mark, change paths, re-assess goals, try something new or adjust direction. To them, failure happens when they stop trying to achieve their personal best.
(c) 2005 Nan S. Russell. All rights reserved.
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"Learn to live within your income. Some day you may have to live without it."
Anybody can earn money--the trick today is to save money.Probably every man and woman in moderate circumstances is either saving money or has planned to do so before long. It is quite natural to put off actually beginning saving until "tomorrow," because today there are so many things one feels it is necessary to buy or to do. Everybody expects to have a larger income
"after while" and intends to save then, but when the larger income arrives, the cost of living has increased, and the pleasures and luxuries to which one has grown accustomed eat up the increased income.
Many men and women who planned two years ago to begin saving as soon as they made more money, are today making more money--but are not saving a cent more than they did two years ago. Many people who read these lines know that is true from their own experience, for every one who looks back realizes that it is not one bit easier to save money today than it would have been when the income was but a few dollars a week.
A larger income is often a temptation to adopt a more expensive mode of living. The modest home which seemed cozy and attractive when the master of the house was earning only a few dollars a week, is immediately abandoned when his salary doubles. The instinct of the average man is to want his home, his dress, his
pleasures, his habits--all to make a show far in advance of his actual earnings.
He impresses his friends and neighbors with the idea that he is making twice as much money as his pocket-book ever holds--and then he has to work in a constant fever in order to keep up with this impression.
Let us live while we live is the slogan of too many men and women of this generation--and that is exactly the point we are coming to.
Let us live while we live. The man or woman who does not know the pleasure of adding week by week to a sum of money earned and owned, has missed one of the most enjoyable, stimulating, and ever-present pleasures which can be experienced.
That statement sounds like exaggeration to the man who has never watched a $10 account in his savings bank book grow week by week. And he is not to blame for thinking so until he knows better. There is pleasure in gratifying one's inclination for spending money, but the man who curbs his inborn inclination to spend--and saves regularly--finds that he experiences twice the pleasure in saving that he ever did in spending.
The secret of gaining wealth has been reduced to seven words by Robert Louis
Stevenson:--
"Earn a little, spend a little less."
Simple, isn't it?
Some people fail to accumulate enough money to take care of them in old age,
sickness or misfortune, and it is because they think that saving is the easiest thing in the world. The fact is that it requires more sense to save money than to make it.
"Don’t work for a mere living; show a profit for your work every week; have
something left from your earnings after all your expenses are paid."
A son of a famous railway magnate was put at work every summer during his
vacations from school and college. One summer he fired an engine; another summer he was a member of a surveying party; so that when the time came for him to take his place on the board of directors of various railroad lines, he knew the business which he was going to direct. He also knew the life of a fireman on a freight engine, and could have earned his living in that calling, if fortune had taken wings and left him dependent entirely upon his own work.
"A hard-working man always seems to be lucky."--Ed. Howe.
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Marlene Challis is founder and CEO of Mc Internet Marketing. She has several business branches and websites. She can be contacted through the website, www.self-help-motivation-source.com. Feel free to republish this article provided you do not edit it in any way and include the author bio as well.
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