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Do You Believe You Can Succeed?
What a silly question! Of course you do! Or do you?

Do you keep trying one thing after another only to fall short and try something new? It could be that, deep down, you simply don't believe that YOU can succeed.

Many of us don't want to admit it, but we doubt that we have what it takes to succeed. So we look for something that will succeed for us.

We grow up believing that those who succeed are somehow less flawed than we are and that the only way we can succeed is to try as many things as we possibly can in the hopes that we will simply luck into success.

But we all have a lot more going for us than we think we do.

I knew a man once who was a masterful woodworker. Year after year, he brought home tons of blue ribbons from the county fair and even the state fair. I was always astounded by the quality of his work. It was simply flawless.

Yet if you praised him for a project he did, he would always express disappointment. Having worked on each piece intimately, he was aware of every thing that hadn't gone absolutely perfectly. He knew every measurement that had been 1/32 of an inch off and every joint that hadn't joined perfectly.

No one else could see any flaws, even when he pointed them out, because they were so minor. But he was painfully aware of each one and was disappointed with himself for them.

We tend to be the same way with ourselves. We see flaws that no one else sees and we downgrade ourselves. But if we just move forward and do our best, eventually the end results will make those flaws unnoticeable.

That's why it's important to keep moving forward on the path we determine toward our goals. We get a lot farther when keep moving and learn along the way than when we discard our efforts and start over again at the first trouble we encounter.
Jeff

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