Quote of the Day

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

 For the past few weeks I've been putting off a big decision because I'm scared to make the wrong choice. Some of my business ideas remain simply ideas out of fear that they will either fail or be too successful.

Self-doubt is a monster, but it is not unconquerable. Look back on past victories that initially seemed out of reach. Draw strength and encouragement from the fact that you have overcome odds and done "the impossible" before, and you can do it again. Know that even if you make a mistake, you haven't failed; you've simply found out how not to achieve your goal.

Yes, I am preaching to myself this morning, but hopefully these few words will encourage someone else as well.

Quote(s) of the Day

It's only Wednesday, but this has been one of the roughest, most trying weeks I can ever recall. My stress level is at an all-time high (matched only by my last semester in grad school when I wasn't sure I'd pass my final class) and I've cried more times than I care to recall.

It ain't looking good for the kid.

So since there's no one here to pat me on the back and "woo woo woo" me, I have to encourage myself. Or let the words of others do it for me:

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. Don't you surrender! Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint.
- Jesse Jackson

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
- Josephine Baker

Thanks Jesse. Thanks Josephine. Y'all don't know how much I needed that.