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Carolyn Smagalski
Decision
Founder - Editor - Host
"One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know
it, you have no certainty until you try," wrote Sophocles. It
takes very great courage to see your goal and press onward
toward it, with the rest of the world in your face. You may
not see certain success on the immediate surface, but your
belief in self will carry you through. Observers want you to
succeed, not just for the good show, but because your success
empowers them, as well. They develop a feeling of security
and trust for those who serve them in responsible situations.
Have you ever been a passenger on an airliner and doubted the
ability of the pilot, or gone into surgery with doubts about
the surgeon? When you are performing, speaking, or
presenting a seminar, your audience wants you to succeed.
When you are fighting a fire, training animals, or diving into
a river to save a drowning victim, your audience wants you to
succeed.
Kahlil Gibran talked about the great conflicts that arise when
we make the decision to use the courage inside ourselves.
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with
the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you
have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel
all you are beyond that pain." This is the place where all
the great athletes take their meddle: Beyond the pain! You
cannot feel the exuberance of success unless you push beyond
the edge.
Fear can diminish your courage and destroy future success.
When you confront that which you fear – fear of failure, fear
of looking foolish, fear of humiliation, fear of not measuring
up – you often meet with great success, along with a surge of
adrenaline. Failure and humiliation only affect you when you
allow them the luxury. If you use these situations to weave a
lesson for others, you turn a negative into a positive. The
failure becomes a success.
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult,"
advised the Roman philosopher and counselor, Seneca (4 B.C.-
65 A.D.)
Dare...
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