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Even when you DID tie them that first time, you knotted them a few times, didn't you? in fact, you "failed" hundreds and hundreds of times at this one task... yet you never gave up trying, did you?
Did you ride your bicycle down the driveway first time out? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Without any known exceptions, those who hit the most home runs also strike out more often. Babe Ruth struck out not merely 330 times (as if that wouldn't be enough?), rather, ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TIMES -- twice as many times as he hit home runs!! The next two home run kings... Hank Aaron & Mickey Mantle...were also strikeout kings, who struck out far, far more than they hit home runs!We hope you're not dumb enough to think this is a coincidence. Anna Mary Robertson, at 76, was 'doomed' by 6 different doctors, told that her arthritis would leave her fingers forever bent & crippled, dependent on others to even dress her each day!! The 7th doctor suggested she draw with pencils, crayons, maybe a paint brush. She laughed, saying she'd never held a paint brush in her life. He told her not to mind that, just focus on working the kinks out of her fingers. That's how, between the ages of 76 and 94, Anna Mary Robertson painted an astonishing six hundred, yes, six HUNDRED masterpiece paintings... using the name "Grandma Moses."Was that enough? Not for Grandma: between 94 and 100, she created an ADDITIONAL 400 masterpieces, including the famous drawings for "The Night Before Christmas." !! R.H. Macy failed seven times before Macy's became the biggest dep't store on earth.You think YOU have it tough? Please.English novelist John Creasey got an incredible 753 rejection slips... before he published, get this...five hundred and sixty-four books!Are you familiar with the popular "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books? Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hanson were rejected by THIRTY-THREE publishers, who said it would never sell... before Health Publications published the first of their TWENTY MILLION BOOKS!!Ted Geisel had TWENTY-SEVEN publishers turn him down before the 28th publisher sold SIX MILLION copies of his first book. You and I know Ted Geisel... by his more famous name... Dr. Seuss!! Yes, the Cat in the Hat went flat... twenty-seven times!!!Rudyard Kipling received piles of rejection slips, including one that informed him that he didn't know how to use the English Language! Like all winners, he had no interest in the opinions of naysayers, and just kept on keeping on. Stop worrying about failure:
Water is useful at 211 degrees fahrenheit.
There's a huge difference between a strikeout... and a failure.
If you know of any exceptions to this rule, Enough already: don't tell us how good you can be, show us today; Whatever you do in the next 10 minutes is exactly what we'll look back on a year from now.
We'll either remember these next 10 minutes being typical, and half-assed, or we'll remember these next 10 - 100 minutes as being ammaazing minutes of striving for
excellence. A failing, broke appliance salesman, depressed at his inability to provide for his family, entered a theatre in New York on a whimsy to try out for a part in a play called "Mister Roberts." All these years later, we know that that young man, Paul Newman, has provided well for his family as an actor, AND GIVEN AWAY MORE THAN © EasyStreet, USA All rights reserved for those who feed hungry people with my share of your profit. In Memory of that energizing role model, Monsignor Bernie Kellogg, and his most ardent student, Steve Rubin, known to many as MrShortcut Who better than Oprah to co-dedicate this page to? The girl who turned failure inside out! |