THE DAILY SPARK

VICTORY OF SUCCESS

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.  Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

Quote by Og Mandino

REFLECTION:

  • What task – no matter how menial or boring are you engaged in daily?
  • Is it bringing you closer to your goal?
  • Is there a task you can do daily that will support you in not only achieving a goal but moving you to victory… success? What is it and how can you begin to make that a habit?

LEMONADE…

Success, when it comes overnight, often departs with the dawn.

Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery we make of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid. The path walked, often with dampened tears, has not been a wasted journey.

FROM:  THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD PART II  The End Of The Story by Og Mandino

REFLECTION:

  • What “failures” have you had that still haunt you?
  • What is something that you previously viewed as a failure but now see as a necessary part of your journey?
  • Is there some form of error you are currently experiencing that you can see differently? Write about it.

HANDLING DISAGREEMENT

“THAT”S NOT WHAT I MEANT”

Disagreements among people who mean well usually begin with that emotion.  You meant to say something or agree to something but the “other side” didn’t hear it that way.  That’s enough for one to walk away forever.  Because denying the experience of the other person doesn’t open the door for re-connection.  Forward motion is possible if we can extend the sentence to, “That not what I meant, but that must be what you heard, how do we fix this?  Will you help me make things right again?”

If we can agree on intent, it’s a lot easier to figure out how to move forward.

Quote from Seth Godin’s Daily Blog

REFLECTION:

  • Is there a relationship you have walked away from due to a disagreement or is there a relationship in your life that is strained because “that is not what I meant” exists?
  • Are you willing to acknowledge the other person might not have heard what you actually meant to say?
  • What if, you can acknowledge there was a misfire in the communication.  What if you could say, “That’s not what I meant, but that must be what you heard.  How do we fix this?  Will you help me make things right again?”
  • BE BRAVE… try it! (and let me know how it turned out!)