July 9
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Today's
quotation:
Success is the doing, not
the getting; in the trying,
not the triumph. Success is a
personal standard,
reaching for the highest that is in us,
becoming all that
we can be. If we do our best, we are a
success.
Zig Ziglar
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Today's
Meditation:
If
I do the best I possibly can at something, then I've
succeeded--no matter what the result. This is
something that wise people have been saying for many, many
years--but something that we've been ignoring for just as
long. Success isn't only about winning or getting or
triumphing, but about making our best effort and pushing
ourselves to the limits of our abilities.
There
was an awful ad campaign during the '96 Olympic games that
stated: "You don't win the silver; you lose the
gold." By that standard, there is only one
"winner" in each event, even though all of the
competitors have beaten great odds just to be there.
All have excelled in their events and have pushed
themselves to extraordinary limits just to be there.
And there are thousands of people who did their very best
to get to Olympic qualifying rounds, only to be beaten
there by other athletes who had better days than they did.
How
can we possibly say that they all aren't extremely
successful? They've reached their personal
standards, even exceeded them, and have reached for the
highest that is within them, the highest of their hearts
and spirits.
I
don't mind coming in second place or 50th place; I don't
mind being passed over for the job; I don't mind not
getting recognition for being the "best."
As long as I've done the best that I'm capable of, I'm
fine with what I am and what I've accomplished. I
define success for myself, and I set my own personal
standards. And that will help me to be happy and
fulfilled my whole life long.
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Questions to
consider:
Why is first place so important to so many people?
What are some more accurate criteria for judging
success?
How might we gauge whether we've given our best or not? |
For further
thought:
We can
think of the times--perhaps only yesterday--when we listened to a friend
in need, or finished a task that was
nagging at us. Maybe we made an appointment to begin a project
we've been putting off. Success is taking
positive action, nothing more. Many
of us, in our youth, were taught that
success only came in certain shapes
and sizes. And we felt like failures. We need new definitions;
it's time to discard the old.
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