Early Detection

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The wonderful thing about the game of life is that winning and losing are only temporary, unless you quit. You are 100% responsible for your own actions.

It was Eleanor Roosevelt who said these words, “no one can make you feel inferior without your consent”.

The more you allow yourself to be thought of by other people as a failure, the more likely you are in the end to regard yourself as one. Do not let yourself be criticized, diminished, made fun of or “put down” by anyone near you, however much you may love him or her. In order to succeed you must first persuade yourself that you are a success, and in order to do that, you need the support and backing of other people’s belief in the possibility of success.

It is of course, possible to overcome other people’s view of you as a failure, and as we have seen, many great men and women have done just that. But it requires a lot of Will Power to succeed against everyone’s preconceived view of you as a natural failure. In most cases, their opinion (particularly if “they” are close to you) tends to become your opinion of yourself, and holds you back.

The road to success is a long one, and day-to-day judgments may be very deceptive. You have to be strong enough to believe in your own goal, whatever other people think of it. And to bear in mind that success lies in the final accomplishment of your hopes and dreams, and cannot be measured at any single point in a lifetime, but only at the end.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

My Daughter thinks I did alot of walking distance-wise today and the way I feel I agree.

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands

He held the weight of impurity
The father would not see
The reasons had finally come to be to
Show the depth of his grace flowed with
Every sin erased he knew that this was
Why he came

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands

And we just don’t know the blood and
Water flowed and in it all

He showes just how much he cares
And the veil was torn so we could have
This open door and all these things have
Finally been complete

Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
Would you take the place of this man
Would you take the nails from his hands
From his hands
From his hands
From his hands
From his hands
From his hands

I really do hope it gets easier soon.

Lou Holtz legendary football coach said it this way:
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
But attitude determines how well you do it”

Now a few words from Pat Riley.
” attitude is the mother of luck
Every life has it’s setbacks. Facing those setbacks
is what keeps you alive. Any time you stop striving
to get better you’re bound to get worse.”

I’m reminded of the tortoise and the hare.  Moral: Plodding wins the race.

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
 I took the one less traveled by,
 And that has made all the difference.”  Robert Frost

I still say this is going to be pretty tuff on me - but I’m going to do my best.

Small walk today -big walk and bowling tomorrow(I hope) .

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by
the position that one has reached in life as by the
obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”

Booker T Washington

Today has been my longest walk yet. And a tough one at that. My lungs burn at the extra huffing and puffing - I think I need to learn to slowdown the pace. But then there is this factor about how much time I can stand on my feet. Today at almost the mid-point my legs became rubbery and I was concerned about being able to get back to the starting point. Well I kept plowing on for about another 50 yards and found a utility box to sit on for about a minute to collect myself. Then I did the reverse walk just a little slower.