SALUTATION TO THE DAWN

Look to this day!

For it is life, the very life of life.

in its brief course

Lie all the varieties and realities of your existence:

The bliss of growth

The glory of action

The splendor of achievement, 

For yesterday is but a dream

And tomorrow is a vision, 

But today well lived makes every yesterday 

a dream of happiness

and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore to this day!

Such is the salutation to the dawn.

Just stumbled on this in an old book by Dale Carnegie, how to stop worrying and start living.

It's a great book. You should get a copy.

Failing Forward

According to one of my favorite writers J.C. Maxwell, he described failing forward as taking three steps forward and two steps backward. The truth is when you take three steps forward and then go back by two steps, you have moved one step forward. We all have to fail to succeed, because it is the pain in failure that makes us appreciate the joy in success.

Thomas Edison once said after 500 failed experiments " i have not failed 500 times, i have only learnt 500 ways not to make an electric bulb". Failure is an inevitable stage in success, but you need to be persistent when you fail, always try again. Nobody fails at anything until they reach the stage when the finally give up.

I am from the school of thought that it is better to take the stairs through the pains of failure to success rather than the elevator. You wonder why? Hmmmnn. Think about it. When u fall from a stair you can go back to the last step and then try again, if the elevator however stops working, it takes you all the way to the ground floor before restarting.

In our quest for success, let us all remember that the shortcut never pays in the long run.