#16 - Greatness...

"Greatness will not find you, it will grow out of you."

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Gabbing on:

"Greatness will not grow from just anything.
It demands the rich soil of paradox, pain, passion and purpose.
It demands your secrets, your fears, your anger and your silence.
It demands consistency of desire, persistence of faith and the courage to be authentic against the tide of consensus.

It will claim from you humility, commitment and creativity.
It will raise you up and dash you against your dream, only to crush your limited expectations before releasing you to soar.
Greatness will promise you nothing but grant you all things, when you choose to ignore it and not seek it out.

It will only manifest itself to you through the eyes, deeds and actions of others in response to you.

So is greatness within us yet beyond us."

#10 - Choice

"Failure is not a choice I make.
Success is not a choice I make.
They are only goals to which I aspire.

Effort of a consistent nature is the only choice I can make. From this, the outcome will be what it will be."

Thursday, July 5, 2007, 7:03 am

Gabbing on:
"Failure and success are only perceptual observations that we apply to outcomes that do not meet our plans, wants and expectations.

Persistent quality effort is the only thing that is in our control. The results are the results. How we evaluate them is based upon how we perceive them to be.

We can dream, demand and attempt to build success, but the results we seek rarely arrive in the form of our design and aspiration."