“I’m With You Kid. Let’s Go.”
“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told:
‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’” (Maya Angelou)
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“There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart. What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.” (Dan Zadra)
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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” (Goethe)
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“I can’t believe God put us on this earth to be ordinary.” (Lou Holtz)
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Kicking and screaming (vs. singing and dancing).
Unfair things happen. You might be diagnosed with a disease, demoted for a mistake you didn’t make, convicted of a crime you didn’t commit. The ref might make a bad call, an agreement might be abrogated, a partner might let you down.
Our instinct is to fight these unfairnesses, to succumb if there’s no choice, but to go down kicking and screaming. We want to make it clear that we won’t accept injustice easily, we want to teach the system a lesson, we want them to know that we’re not a pushover.
But will it change the situation? Will the diagnosis be changed, the outcome of the call be any different?
What if, instead, we went at it singing and dancing? What if we walked into our four-year prison sentence determined to learn more, do more and contribute more than anyone had ever dreamed? What if we saw the derailment of one path as the opportunity to grow or to invent or to find another path?
This is incredibly difficult work, but it seems far better than the alternative.” (Seth Godin, Seth’s Blog, February 18, 2015)
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