Painting by Belynda Wilson Thomas
I may not be there yet but I’m closer than I was yesterday. Unknown
Time, we think we have lots until we have none. At the beginning of pregnancy, it seems a long time until the baby will be due, but here we are, my daughter is full term, and I expect to be a grandma within days.
If we look at our tasks like pregnancy and take every day to work toward our goals then we will slowly and steadily reach our goals. One of the mistakes we make is not breaking our goals into smaller and smaller goals until we break them down into what we must do each day to work toward them. If we break it down and do our daily tasks toward them we will get where we want to go.
If we are not working on our goals daily, how will they be accomplished? If our goal is to be healthy, what we eat daily, the exercise we do daily, and our daily thoughts will determine where we end up. Last night at Toastmasters we only had one speaker so the President of the club played the winning speech from the International Speech Contest from 2014. The speaker tells how he was not doing well at seventeen when his father got him a job with a man who said to him, “I see something in you, I don’t know what it is, but if you come and work for me we can figure it out.”
If we are lucky we have been that person to others and someone has been that person to us. “I see something in you.” What powerful words and on the cusp of being a grandma I know words are powerful. I hope that I will have the right words to encourage someone and especially my grandchildren. If we can live our life encouraging others to keep up the good fight, to keep going when they want to stop, to move in a new direction, or to find a direction when they don’t have one. Then we will be a blessing in the lives of others no matter how small a part we play in their lives.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich
How many people have had someone say something to them that made them look at things differently? I had someone say something to me when things weren’t working out well for me when I first left home. “Mom said, “Why don’t you come home?” I was contemplating doing just that when he said, “If you run now, you will run the rest of your life.” I got a new job, found an apartment, and bought a car.
It wasn’t a big thing, but Brian Tracy tells us how we live our life becomes a habit. If we quit, then quitting can seem like the thing to do when the going gets tough. There will always be rough patches in life when we feel like the direction we are going in is not the right direction, sometimes it isn’t, but we have to know when we give up something it is for something better not just quitting because we lack perseverance.
Is there a tougher job than parenthood? Is there any part of life where a bigger price is paid than when we drop the ball as parents? Eighteen years at the very least of being there, setting an example, endless encouragement, finding the humor in situations that might not be funny, and putting your family’s wellbeing above your own. Being a grandma is one of the rewards of being a parent and I intend to enjoy it to the fullest.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. Marcus Aurelius
The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this. Ryan Holiday
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