08/06/2023
“You’ve got a lot of potential.”
Has anyone ever said that to you?
Is that just another way of saying, “You’re not there yet”?! 😝
Well, keep going! Be OVER ambitious! Because If you shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you might land among the stars 🌟
Teachers and administrators this week have been talking a lot about the struggle to meet goals and expectations in recent years. The pandemic didn’t help. Putting added pressure on children and young adults won’t help either.
Edison pretty much didn’t listen to Tesla (Nikola, that is), but Tesla persisted and eventually proved the alternating current theory was indeed superior. Not only did he prove it, his invention made electricity available to more than just the super wealthy. Edison himself, a very successful entrepreneur, said, “I’ve not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways not to make a lightbulb.”
Resiliency. It’s something we all had as children. You fall off your bike, you cry a bit. You move on to the next thing or get back in that bike.
Funny enough, Puff Daddy famously struggled running a short run with Ashton Kutcher and signed up for the NY marathon the next year.
Keep going! Reframe! Believe! Learn the lesson and dive back in. Even if you don’t make your lofty, ambitious, beautiful goal, you will find yourself in a better, stronger, smarter place than you were in before. Stars aren’t so bad. They’re kinda pretty after all…. Well, metaphorically speaking ✌🏽🌟