Today's Quote: Golda Meir

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Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~ Golda Meir

Blackout Button

The road to success involves trying new things, trying again, making mistakes! This blackout button is by Adventure Awaits Us:

A blackout poetry collection on Pinterest -- inspiration to make your own!

Today's Quote: Henry David Thoreau

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Today's Quote: Thomas J. Watson

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Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.
~ Thomas J. Watson

Today's Quote: Diane Ackerman

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
~ Diane Ackerman

Today's Quote: Benjamin Franklin

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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Today's Quote: Buddha

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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
~ Buddha

Perfectionism

Derek Thompson in The Agony of Perfectionism talks about worrying about "perfection" can keep you from being happy. There are too many choices. It is sort of like the grass being greener on the other side:

"The paradox of caring too much about having the perfect version of everything is that you wind up feel dissatisfied with all of it...

In short: The Internet doesn't have to make you miserable. But if you insist on comparing your choices and your life to every available alternative accessible through a Google search, it will.

...We don't know everything. We don't have everything. And that's okay."

Taylor Buckley also says:

Does anyone else get held back by their own perfectionism?

Do you find that you can’t adopt healthier ways of eating because you feel like you don’t have the time to go to the store, do all the planning, and make all the food?
Do you feel like you can’t start going to the gym until you have the perfect workout plan, clothes, body…?

So many times in our life we are held back by our own desire to have everything put together before we feel comfortable starting. In a way, that’s actually a really silly thought, the one that starts with, “I will do this when _____”. If we are always waiting until some magical when, then how will we ever actually start to do anything?

Can you tell when you are making good choices and good plans and when you are tripping yourself up? If you are feeling happy about your choices and actions, then keep doing what you're doing. If not, consider doing it differently. You can do it! Baby steps!

Today's Quote: Proverbial Wisdom

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Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
~ Chinese proverb

Today's Quote: Misty Copeland

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Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
~ Misty Copeland

Today's Quote: Ben Okri

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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
~ Ben Okri

Today's Quote: Theodore Roosevelt

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Be Kind to My Mistakes

It's all right, darling, we can do this together
It's all right, darling, I can think of nothing better
I don't know you and you don't know me
It is this that brings us together
~Kate Bush

This song started going through my head today. Kate Bush with "Be Kind to My Mistakes":