So, at 8 days into the new year, how are you progressing with your resolutions (if you made any)? Most folks who make resolutions manage to last at least several weeks. I hope you're doing well at whatever resolution you chose to focus on this year. I thought I'd inspire you with this article I found recently on one thing successful people have in common and one thing I am personally working to eradicate from my own life: whining. Enjoy!
The One New Year's Resolution The Most Successful People Always Keep: No Whining
by Paul B. Brown, co-author of Just Start: Take Action; Embrace Uncertainty; Create the Future
Every successful person is unique. (How could it be otherwise?) But invariably one of the things they have in common is this: They don’t whine.
I noticed early on that the most successful people rarely (or never) talked about the difficulties that they had to overcome.
For the longest time, I thought it was modesty, but eventually I realized they didn’t talk about it because they didn’t think there was anything to talk about.
They had a problem or series of them. They took their problems as a given and worked hard to play the best hand they could with the cards they were dealt.
If the problem was caused by something they had done, they took great pains not to do it again. But if it was just a matter of fate, they accepted it and starting working on a way to overcome it.
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