Plod on...

So this week was kinda relaxed (and cold). New clients and a mellow feel.

One of my clients this week reminded me of a great book... 'The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity' by Catherine Ponder... if you have not read it buy it now!!

Towards the end she talks wise words which are great when you are not getting the results you think you deserve:

"When discouragement and despair try to keep you from persisting towards your goals, remind yourself of the successful people who succeeded in spite of being maimed, blind, deaf or psychoneurotic:

Toscanini was so nearsighted that he could not read the score when conducting

Lord Byron had a club foot

Homer and Milton were blind

Sir Walter Scott was an invalid

Beethoven was deaf

Dostoyevski and de Maupassant were epileptic

Franklin D. Roosevelt did not have free use of his legs.

Shakespeare might have been describing the power of persistence when he wrote, 'There is a tide in the affairs of men when, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune'. ..."

"It is not always the people with the most education or talent who make the grade. It is the 'plodders'. It is the people who doggedly refuse to give up, whether they seem to have talent or brilliance. The story of the hare and tortoise is the story of persistence winning out over great odds. As with the tortoise, you cannot be defeated if you never give up."

So next time you see a hare winning at your game... plod on like the tortoise and see if you can win through. Also, if you ever think "I can't do that" then look for evidence that someone else has! It gives you inspiration and can help to silence the voices.

Along the same lines; just this morning I spotted a friend of mine in Psychologies magazine as one of the featured writers this month - Marilyn Devonish - and I thought if she can do it why can't I. So new goal for next year set :)

Well done Marilyn and everyone else going after their goals. Don't loose focus and just keep plodding on!

As we used to say when I was a Hasher (Hash House Harriers - drinking clud with a running problem)... "On On..."