Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain the goals and dreams you seek.
Stay inspired!
Ray
Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain the goals and dreams you seek.
Stay inspired!
Ray
Today’s Affirmation:
“I am blessed beyond belief in my life.”
(click the affirmation to hear it in mp3)
As we celebrate the American Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, here are 55 things to be thankful for. Some may seem counter-intuitive. However, even the negative sometimes is worthy of our thankfulness. I’ve probably left some off my list. Leave a comment today and let me know what you are thankful for.
Today’s thought is:
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
~ John Wooden
I often encounter people who look at the world in horror and say, in desperation, “I want a different world, but what can one person do?” Similarly, there are people who feel powerless to change their own lives for the better. They allow what they cannot do to stop them from doing what they could do.
The problems that face us individually and collectivley can be overwhelming at times. Their enormity depresses some, makes others apathetic, and still others angry.
The amazing thing is that these same conditions inspire others to strive for something better, more complete, more empowering. The key is to focus on what we can do rather than what we cannot.
John Wooden’s accomplishments, while not world-changing, are staggering in sports terms. He led the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team to 10 NCAA national championships in 12 years between 1964 and 1975. In that span his teams, went undefeated four times. Only one team in men’s college basketball has completed an undefeated in the 33 years since.
As a revered coach, Wooden’s words have become legendary. Today he is 97 years old. Someone who has achieved that level of success in any field and that scale of longevity bears listening to.
Coach Wooden tells us not to let what we cannot do interfere with what we can.
The fact is that you may not reach the mountain top today. That does not mean you stop climbing. For these days when you worried, stressed, and strove over your goal, will be “the stuff” the dream is made of when you do achieve it.
Have a wonderful Monday!
Stay Inspired!
Ray
Ray Davis is founder of The Affirmation Spot, a website offering downloadable mp3 motivation tools.
Ray’s 2015 speculative fiction novel, Anunnaki Awakening: Revelation, is turning heads. Where did humanity really come from and where is it going? This is Book 1 of a trilogy. The Awakening has begun!
Learn more about the trilogy and order your signed copy today at AATrilogy.com.
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