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Like everyone else,
you strike out at least twice for every success. in fact, you "failed" hundreds and hundreds of times at this one task... yet you never gave up trying, did you?
Did you ride your bicycle down the driveway first time out? Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat? Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out more often. Babe Ruth struck out not merely 330 times (as if that wouldn't be enough?), rather, ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TIMES!! The next two home run kings... ...were also strikeout kings, who struck out far, far more than they hit home runs! Yes, Hank Aaron & Mickey Mantle. We hope you don't think this is a coincidence.Anna Mary Robertson, at 76, was 'doomed' by 6 different doctors, told that her arthritis would leave her fingers forever bent & crippled, dependent on others to even dress her each day!! The 7th doctor suggested she draw with pencils, crayons, maybe a paint brush. She laughed, saying she'd never held a paint brush in her life. He told her never mind that, just focus on working the kinks out of her fingers. That's how, between the ages of 76 and 94, Anna Mary Robertson painted an astonishing 600, yes, six HUNDRED masterpiece paintings... using the name "Grandma Moses."Between 94 and 100, she created an ADDITIONAL 400 masterpieces, including the classic illustrations for "The Night Before Christmas." !! R.H. Macy failed seven times before Macy's became the biggest dep't store on earth. You think YOU have it tough? Please.English novelist John Creasey got an incredible 753 rejection slips... beforehe published, get this...five hundred and sixty-four books!Are you familiar with the popular "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books? Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hanson were rejected by THIRTY-THREE publishers, who said it would never sell... before Health Publications published the first of their TWENTY MILLION BOOKS!!
Ted Geisel had TWENTY-SEVEN publishers turn him down before the 28th publisher sold SIX MILLION copies of his first book. You and I know Ted Geisel... by his more famous name... Dr. Seuss!! Yes, the Cat in the Hat went flat... twenty-seven times!!!A failing, broke appliance salesman, depressed at his obvious inability to provide for his family, entered a theatre in New York on a whimsy to try out for a part in a play called "Mister Roberts." All these years later, we know that that young man, Paul Newman, has provided well for his family as an actor, AND GIVEN AWAY MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS to charity through the sale of "Newman's Own" sauces and other food products.Don't worry about failure:
Water is useful at 211 degrees fahrenheit.
There's a huge difference between a strikeout... and a failure.
If you know of any exceptions to this rule, Enough already: don't tell us how good you can be, show us today; Whatever you do in the next 10 minutes is exactly what we'll look back on a year from now. We'll either remember these next 10 minutes being typical, and half-assed, or we'll remember these next 10 - 100 minutes as being ammaazing minutes of striving for excellence. How do you want to be remembered: typical & average, or the kind of person who goes for the gold? As always, what you do in the next hour of your life will tell us clearly who you are. Go for it. Dare to be more, now! © 2001 EasyStreet, USA All rights reserved for those who feed hungry people with my share of your profit. In Memory of that most electifying role model, Monsignor Bernie Kellogg, and his most ardent student, Steve Rubin, known to many as MrShortcut |
