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| Keep Trying and Trying. |  You may be disappointed if you try and fail; but you are doomed if you do not try. It is easy to give up after the first try or attempt. Failing does not invalidate your dream and render your vision null and impossible. Refuse to die hiding from challenge and content with trying nothing and preserved from action. Never be disappointed by the first stony bite at your goals. Keep trying until you succeed and breakthrough. This attitude that things should just work at first attempt is contrary to how life really works. If at first you do not succeed, do not wear the failure as an armband and advertise your miseries to everyone. Just stick to the knitting and keep trying. Try like a mad man who will not listen to anything that suggests that success is impossible. Edit your mental dictionary and delete the word, “impossible.” Try, and fail but never fail to try and keep pushing until you breakthrough.
Keep Going.
Some days are tough and challenging. Some season are rough and tough. You come to the end of the day and you are so exhausted and discouraged. Sometimes it feels like you are banging your head against a stony wall. I have had many such days. Being disappointed is being appointed for success if you keep trying. There are days when I am tempted to quit and run. What would that accomplish? Never quit simply because things are tough nor because the terrai is rough and the ride is bumpy. Easy street is closed for good. The short-cut to success is through dogged trying and refusing to give up. When you come to the end of the terrible and tough day, remember there is a tomorrow and another day break waiting for those who will dare get up and face the day. You do not need to rant and throw tantrums. All you need is to have the quiet confidence that you can wake up to try again. How badly do you want it.
Expressing mere wishes is not a decision but a weak prayer. If you want something badly enough, make a decision. Cut off all hesitation and make a bold and determined attempt. If you want to paint, why keep talking about it without painting. Paint. Get a brush, get some paper, canvas or wall and do it. If you want to sing, stop making noisy calculations and sing. If you want to travel, get started and get moving. If you want to develop some skill, stop regretting that you never got the opportunity and you were born at the wrong time. Enrol, get a coach, take the class, make a fire. Get moving. Refuse to be a victim of fear and do the things that you fear. Never allow the fear of failure to stop you from going for the things you want. You really do not want it badly enough so long as you are not willing to take action. It is better to fail while marching in the direction of your desire, than to just sit still in false hope. Things do not do themselves, they get done by someone. The Try Angle
There are many ways to look at a situation. One perspective is to see all the things that can go wrong. Indeed, many things can and do go wrong. There is just no bravery is the surgical analysis of fear. There are no accolades for cowardice and succumbing to fear. There is no glory in inaction and inertia. The other angle is the impossibility angle. This is where you start seeing all the things that make the venture and proposition impossible. It does not take any genius to doubt yourself. The best angle to view your situation is the “Try” Angle. This is where you take the shot and you dare to try. The impossible is the untried. Unless you try you may never know how far you can go. The try angle is the best angle with which to launch your grand idea and to challenge your situation. You will not have finished trying before your breakthrough comes. Try, try and try and then keep trying until the sun breaks forth and the deed is done. Those who truly fail are those who do not dare to try. Managing Emotions
If something that you are attempting does not work, you will be disappointed. That is natural. However, you will be a disappointment if you stop trying because you got disappointed. Never let the thought of hurt, wounded pride and a tarnished image stop you from trying and doing what you know you must do. Do not hide your failure, just ignore it and try again. If you do not make any mistakes you are not trying hard enough. Unless you attempt something that is beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow, stretch and advance. Stop swimming in the shallow end of life. Refuse to be content with yesterday’s glory and the stinking accolades of the past. If you have never doubted yourself you probably have never been stretched and attempted a big and exciting goal. Your self-doubt is your traitor. It will stop you from gaining all the good that could come from attempting something that is big and exciting. You are not judged by the number of times you do things perfectly and never miss a beat. That is for robots. You are judged by the number of times you dare to stand up and attempt what looks impossible. It is when you are hardest hit that you must get up and give another try. Keep trying, though discouraged never lose your enthusiasm or drive. Try chewing at your goal until you have no teeth. Too many wimps want the easy painless road, where they achieve without effort and win without fighting. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try. Commit yourself
Whenever you have a full English breakfast always remember that on your plate sits the metaphor of the difference between commitment and mere involvement. When you look at that egg, you know that the chicken was involved in order for you to have breakfast. It lay the egg and went on to play. When you look at the slice of bacon, you know that the pig committed its life in order for you to have the bacon for breakfast. Without commitment nothing worthwhile happens. Testing to see if things work is not commitment but gambling. Gaming is not the royal road to greatness. Committed to your greatness. Milton Kamwendo | | RECOMMENDED READS |  Battlefield of the Mind
by Joyce Meyer
In YOU CAN BEGIN AGAIN, Joyce Meyer explores the beauty and infinite supply of God's love and grace. Through inspiring stories, Scriptural principles, and her classic practical, life-application approach, Joyce powerfully demonstrates that God isn't done with you yet. |
 Don't Waste Your Life
by John Piper
It's easy to slip through life without taking any risks-without making your life count. But life ought not be wasted. You don't need to know a lot of things to make a lasting difference in the world, but you do have to know the few, great, unchanging, and glorious things that matter and be willing to live and to die for them.
|  Over The Top
by Zig Ziglar
Drawing on forty years as a world-class motivational speaker and author, Ziglar identifi es and outlines in his best-selling Over the Top precisely how to achieve what people desire most from life—to be happy, healthy, and reasonably prosperous and secure.
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