“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.”
Vince Lombardi – Football Coach, Green Bay Packers
A friend sent this quote today and it rings true for me.
When I want something badly enough I can make it happen. It may require a bit of creative thinking, or an incredible amount of work, or even a fair amount of pain, but most things are not impossible.
Persistence is part of the recipe. How many times have I quit just before I might have succeeded? I really have to want some things – a lot. I wanted to quit smoking. It took over ten years for me to find a way that made it work, but I finally did it!
And I have to be realistic. I wanted children and after years of thinking that was impossible I became a foster parent and then an adoptive parent. I had children! Just not the way I had expected.
I wanted to be loved and understood for exactly who I was. It took a lifetime, but it happened.
The price of success for me has often been years of trying and failing and then discovering that success isn’t always exactly the way I pictured it, but it is still just as sweet.
Failure usually means I didn't want it badly enough.
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