Life can be unfair, confusing, discouraging, and filled with all sorts of unexpected factors. Yet even in the most difficult situations, achievements of every kind are most assuredly within your reach.
Decide what you intend to do, and get clear on the specifics of what that involves. Then get going, and don't stop until you're there.
Even when you're discouraged, you can still put one foot in front of another. Even when distractions beg for your attention, you can choose to remain focused on the task at hand.
Even when setbacks come, there is a way to keep going. Even when you make a mistake, or a whole series of them, you can learn from what you've done and go forward from there.
Anything can provide you with a good excuse to give up. Yet nothing can stop you when you choose to keep going.
What do you truly want in your life right now? Decide what you intend to do, and know that you can make it happen.
-- Ralph Marston
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* We eventually realize that just as the pains of alcoholism had to come before sobriety, emotional turmoil comes before serenity. *
