Karen Zimmerman took this photo of air bubbles from a Beaver lodge. I used to skate on a beaver pond, and swim in the summer. Looks like the beavers are sleeping okay.
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
~American saying
All too often, we hear someone’s success explained as “a stroke of good luck.” Success and progress are no more the result of good luck than failure is the result of bad luck. Natural ability is of little use unless we develop habits of hard work. Brilliance is born in some, but labor or action is of greater importance.
We perform to the best of our ability when we work for the work’s sake, not for any hope of fame. Success results from hard work and confidence in our judgment. The degree of success depends on the amount of good judgment used. Good advice and judgment from others is helpful, but the doing is entirely ours.
Success is simply the use of the abilities I have. I must treat them as practical tools, not magical gifts. Nobody travels my road for me.
From: Easy Does It, A Book of Daily Meditations for Recovery
Fearless on Friday
Fearless on Friday
Fearless on Friday
