Hey there

My progress lately has been in fits and starts… not a good way, but a way none the less. I came across this quote and it helped me to change my attitude. Here it is…

THE MAN IN THE ARENA – Theodore Roosevelt
Excerpt from the speech “Citizenship In A Republic”
delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
download PDF of complete speech

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Defeat has been tough lately, I really need to capitalize on the small successes in order to roll them into bigger overall progress.

Today I feel good.

Today I am alive and kickin’.

Today I am running with it – this good feeling – for as long as it lasts.

Watch. Me.