In the Arena
Hi Reader, Some are stepping onto a stage to play a musical instrument in front of a live audience for the very first time, while others might be learning their first chords or picking out their first axe at the music store. Some are leaving their workplaces, readying themselves to go home to an empty nest for the first time in 20 years, while others are opening a door to a house that was full of light and laughter before the bad news came. And while some are learning how to hold their breaths, others are discovering that there's nothing to hold. Whatever your big thing is today, it doesn't need to be life-changing or exciting or meaningful to anybody else but you. And if you get any static at all from naysayers, remind yourself of this very-often shared quote and its very-often shared summation, both very-often shared because they're just damn good words to remember. ___ “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.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt ___ “If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I am not interested in or open to your feedback." ~ Brene Brown ___ Go do good things with whatever you've got. Peace, P.S. - What do you mean you've got nothing? Sure you do! Let's talk.
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