are you sure?
"Self doubt comes and gnaws on my head three or four times a day. The more I do what I want and need to do the less it comes around. Sometimes I just get scared and overwhelmed. Then I think, "People do this everyday. Quit bitching. Do your best. Don't stop."
Of this I'm sure:
The greatest indicator of failure is the willingness to buy into your own bullshit. If you'll buy that, you'll buy anything. You will never have the ability to be self-defining.
The greatest indicator of success is unwavering integrity and adherence to an individual set of values. Until you trust yourself, you have nothing. The successful person is their own compass. " - fray.com
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"With anything (marriage or otherwise), being 'sure' isn't about signs of rightness, a thing perfected. It's not about right timing or right placement or waiting for the blessings and benefits of the world around you to fall into place.
It's about the moment that you realize that something feels good, and that your interest and investment in it outweighs your fear of failing. It's the moment you choose to say to yourself that you desire it enough to face the challenges and road blocks it presents.
It isn't the 'easy'. It's not a lack of pitfalls, but rather.. it's when you turn around and suddenly view those potential pitfalls with the excitement and curiosity of finding out what you're made of. And you're aware of all the magic and good and rightness that will come, in its time. Even if you have to put some muscle into it.
Like stock markets and ponies and lovers and career moves and bungee jumping: when the nervous, tingling grin you get from thinking about it overrides the stiff, rigid defiance of the idea... and you can gather yourself up enough to say "BRING IT ON!"
...you're sure." - fray.com
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The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic. from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. - Anne Morris (found on a Starbucks cup)
Of this I'm sure:
The greatest indicator of failure is the willingness to buy into your own bullshit. If you'll buy that, you'll buy anything. You will never have the ability to be self-defining.
The greatest indicator of success is unwavering integrity and adherence to an individual set of values. Until you trust yourself, you have nothing. The successful person is their own compass. " - fray.com
* * *
"With anything (marriage or otherwise), being 'sure' isn't about signs of rightness, a thing perfected. It's not about right timing or right placement or waiting for the blessings and benefits of the world around you to fall into place.
It's about the moment that you realize that something feels good, and that your interest and investment in it outweighs your fear of failing. It's the moment you choose to say to yourself that you desire it enough to face the challenges and road blocks it presents.
It isn't the 'easy'. It's not a lack of pitfalls, but rather.. it's when you turn around and suddenly view those potential pitfalls with the excitement and curiosity of finding out what you're made of. And you're aware of all the magic and good and rightness that will come, in its time. Even if you have to put some muscle into it.
Like stock markets and ponies and lovers and career moves and bungee jumping: when the nervous, tingling grin you get from thinking about it overrides the stiff, rigid defiance of the idea... and you can gather yourself up enough to say "BRING IT ON!"
...you're sure." - fray.com
* * *
The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic. from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. - Anne Morris (found on a Starbucks cup)