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July
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Today's
quotation:
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us
can— and surely will at times— fail.
Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love,
can be terrifying, too. I
think we should follow a simple rule:
if we can take the worst,
take the risk.
Joyce Brothers
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Today's
Meditation:
I
will be hurt in life. That's really all there is to
it: I will be hurt. People will hurt me
intentionally, unintentionally, unknowingly and
knowingly. How I react to the hurt, though, is the
most important thing to me. And how I react to the
possibility of being hurt when I choose what I will do in
life is just as important to me in the long and short
runs.
I
spent many years being unwilling to take risks with
relationships. My fear of rejection and fear of
being humiliated kept me from asking girls out when I was
young, and they kept me from asking women out when I was
older. While I certainly wouldn't want to change my
current life, I do know that I spent many a miserable day
because of my fear and the way that it controlled me; I
have to wonder how much more I would have gotten out of
life if I hadn't spent so much time feeling bad about
myself and my world. How much more beautiful would
my world have been if I had been willing to take
risks? How much more would I have been able to give
to others if I hadn't made myself so miserable?
If
we know that our reactions to events determine our own
feelings about them, we would know that we can take the
worst. The "worst" is rarely as bad as we
imagine it to be--millions of people every day deal very
well with loss and pain and frustration and seemingly
hopeless situations. If they can do it, so can we,
no matter how "bad" things are. And we all
know that so-called "bad" things often turn out
to be the best things for us.
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Questions to
consider:
What's the worst that can happen to you if you take a
certain action? Is that "worst" thing really all that bad?
Are you able to "fail" without worrying about
how others will see you? About how you'll see yourself?
Have you ever known someone who took a great risk and
succeeded? What elements went into his or her success? |
For further
thought:
I
must tell you I take terrible risks.
Because my playing is
very clear,
when I make a mistake you hear it.
If you want
me to play only the notes
without any specific dynamics, I
will never make one
mistake. Never be afraid to dare.
Vladimir
Horowitz |
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