What If

“You’re worried about what-ifs. Well, what if you stopped worrying?”
― Shannon Celebi

What if?



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If You Can

by Rudyard Kipling (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!


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Now

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two words which tend to prevent us from ever getting ahead in life. They are words that we all too often speak into our own lives and allow a certain power over us.

Those two words are IF and WHEN.

IF only I had more time. IF only I was smarter. IF the stars align perfectly. Then I will move myself to seek a better life, greater achievement and reach those goals I have set for myself.

WHEN the kids are out of school. WHEN the weather gets better. WHEN the time is right. Then I will be able to complete my schooling, find out if I'm capable and reach those goals I have set for myself.

Almost daily we talk ourselves out of doing some greater, something more in our life. We say those words nearly instantaneous and without thought of how destructive they are to our goals.

Be one to get and DO what it is you want to DO in life. Don't say IF. Don't say WHEN. Like the famous advertising slogan goes, "Just Do It" and see your goals fulfilled.

Stay inspired my friends.