Today's minimotivator #48-2010: Keep hammering

Jacob A. Riis said, "Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

How many times do people stop at the hammering at 100? I think a lot and yet like the stone cutter if they kept hammering they would crack whatever they were working on.

Don't stop at 100. All the energy you have built in the those first 100 will make the next 100 easier and more powerful. You will crack the rock.

YourMondayMotivator: Much to learn

It's another Monday morning after a wedding for me. This time it wasn't mine, it was a friends. A fantastic time, completely different to my own wedding last week.

Last week I only mentioned our wedding in passing and wrote about how posture affects your attitude. How much have I to learn.

The furore about not writing screeds about our wedding was very interesting because I always write what I am thinking about on the Monday morning. I was worn out and it turns out ill. After an amazing weekend I had to take a few days off work. Definitely a first for me because I am always fit and healthy.

It seems readers feel a certain ownership over the MondayMotivator which is amazing to me. I write the MondayMotivator because it helps me learn about lots of different things. I read things, I discuss them, I think about them and then I write about it and my experience and learn. Last week was a great learning experience for me and hopefully I have passed my experience on to you today.

There is a Chinese Proverb that goes, "Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back."

I'm going to keep rowing. I recommend you do the same.

Have a great week.

Glenn

P.S. If you are interested in my wedding I have put some shots here. My bride is very beautiful. I am a very lucky man.

Todays minimotivator #108-2009

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, "What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."

Taking that step will get you off a mountain, through a forest, around the block or into a something you are passionate about. Small steps always look the same and might even become boring. But "boring" has it's merits and it's heels dug in.

Take some steps today.

Todays minimotivator fresh from my desk

Confucius said, "It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."

Like the Hare learnt from the Tortoise speed is not always essential to win the race. A friend of mine Lisa Tamati is not the fastest runner in the world but her strength is she never stops. This has enabled to her run non stop for days to cover hundreds of miles. If she stopped she would never get as far. So don't worry about how slow you are going, just don't stop.

Have a great afternoon.

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Todays minimotivator fresh from my desk

John Paul Jones was to have said, "I have not yet begun to fight!" during a naval battle in reply to a quip about surrender.

Have you had someone tell you to give up when you're just starting something? Next time use John Paul Jones famous line and push on.

Have a great afternoon and sorry for the lateness. As you know this is fresh each day and I got caught up in exciting meetings. Any ideas on how I can get this out on time can be posted here.

Todays BOOST to survive the day

Thomas Alva Edison said, "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Here was a guy who made approximately 10,000 attempts to develop a longer burning light bulb. Make a few more attempts and while you do remember Edison would have made 9,997 more to get to his goal.

Todays BOOST to survive the day

Anne Sullivan said, "People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved."

In business or sport or life when the way becomes painful and halting steps instead of giant leaps and you keep going, keep pushing, instead of giving up, you are successful by any measure.

-- Anne Sullivan was Helen Keller's teacher.