Sometimes we need a shot in the arm, a second wind, a fresh
approach. Sometimes, we just need to forge ahead.
Now and then we need encouragement from each other!
Here's hoping that whatever your goals are today,
they will be a success tomorrow!
I underlined, bolded and highlighted the words that
encouraged me today!
Herschel
July 10th 2013
"It'll never last..."
"Someone with her background will never make a go of
this..."
"Are you kidding me?" "Pathetic!
Delusional!"
"Social media is a fad, the iPad is a toy, you're never
going to amount to anything..."
Here's the thing about proving skeptics wrong: They don't
care. They won't learn. They will
stay skeptics. The ones who said the airplane would never fly ignored the success
of the Wright Bros. and went on to become skeptical of something else. And when
they got onto an airplane, they didn't apologize to the engineers on their way
in.
I used to have a list, and I kept it in my head, the list of
people who rejected, who were skeptical, who stood in the way. What I
discovered was that this wasn't the point of the work, and my goal wasn't
actually to prove these folks wrong, it was
only to do the work that was worth doing. So long ago I stopped
keeping track. It's not about the skeptics. It's about the people who care
about, support and enable.
Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong,
it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve
it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for
you.
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