Pushing the Envelope

"Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better." Jim Rohn

Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh captured the hearts of Americans with their amazing feats. Forever immortalized in newsreels, newspapers, books and movies, these people took unimaginable risks.

We love the person who pushes the envelope, but we don't want to be that person. We'll line up to watch, getting a vicarious thrill from their adventures. But when life invites us to take a risk, to live on the edge, we say no thanks. Convinced something is beyond our limitations, we shrink from the challenge. When the truth is, we have no clue what our limits are because we refuse to allow them to be tested.

It seems to me if I'm up against a difficulty, it wouldn't even be there in the first place if I didn't have what it takes to meet it and eventually overcome it. Of course I may fail, but so what? Sometimes in failing we learn things we could learn no other way.

We whine, "This is too hard," when we should be reaching deep down within ourselves. It's there we would find we are more than equal to the task at hand.

Susan

Thinking on Your Feet

"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn and shine with increasingly clearness on your path." Jim Rohn

She was fairly young to be in middle management. Blonde and petite, she looks even younger than she is. It was a challenge at first, being the new supervisor of seventy people, most of them older and many of them men. But being too young is a problem that, in time, takes care of itself. Not every problem requires your attention.

Confidence in who you are and in what you intend to do means you figure some things out as you go along. While you may prefer to sit down and formulate a plan, action requires that you keep walking and learn to think on your feet. It sometimes may seem like you're stumbling around in the dark, but sooner or later the light comes on.

Susan