Deliverable

Sure it might suck. Do it anyway. Which will suck more… doing it, or being poor? — me

“In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.” (John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester in The Libertine)

Great line. Wonderful performance by Johnny Depp.

“When you truly desire something, all the
universe conspires to help you achieve it.”

This was in the signature of an email I received a while back. Not sure who it’s by, but it seemed like a good thing to focus on for the day.

Haven’t posted one of these in a bit, but better late than never:

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself makes you fearless. -Lao Tzu

Grabbed this from the trailer for the upcoming Jet Li movie. Seemed appropriate given some of the things I have coming up on my plate.

For all things, a reason.

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or a greater Benefit. –Napoleon Hil.

I’d planned a whole post on how this past week has been really crappy. I was going to then lay out all of the seeds that might have been planted because of it. Instead I’m just going to grit my teeth and tell myself I’ll get through this stretch and believe there has to be some reason for it. I just don’t feel like looking for those reasons at the moment.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. –Antonine de Saint Exupery

Given to me by M. on or around a Thursday in August of 2005… one of those Zen Calendar things. I’m feeling better than I did last week, but still feel like I’m just trying to pull myself up and get myself moving.

I’m a bit late with this, but here goes:

This ain’t no Disneyland my Dear
So keep your purpose clean and clear
Double Check what’s in your cup; cuz
Electric City can eat you up

Over to you,
King Cockroach

I copied this down a long time ago in an old journal and just recently came across it again. It’s from the liner notes of Chick Corea’s first record with The Elektric Band.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgements that leads us to either fortune or failure. —Author unknown (possibly me?)

I’m not sure if I wrote this or not. It feels like something I came up with, but then again it might be something that I channeled from one of Tony Robbins books. Whichever it is, it seems like solid wisdom.

I’d considered starting the week with some type of “Success & Fear” type of post. I did a quick search of this blog for past posts containing the word fear and decided against it. One of the benefits of keeping a digital record of your thoughts and progress is that you’re able to quickly track where you’ve come from, where you’ve been, and all of the things you habitually do and think. I’ve been a bit down since the big year end push to get the detritus gone from my life. So be it. No one said being successful was going to be easy.

So no waxing poetic on fear holding me back. It’s 10:00 a.m. Monday morning and I’m up, the dishes are done, the apartment is reasonably clean and I have the day ahead of me. I’m not sure that I’m any closer to finding my true North than I was when I put this out there back in July but so be it. I never gave the Universe a timetable. I’m just going to try and fight my way through this day and make myself feel better. It’s all I can do.