"What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does."
J. K. Rowling
Browsing category: Confidence
"Once people own you,they can tell you what to do. So don’t let ’em.”
Bill Cunningham
“To be original you don’t have to be first. You just have to be different and better.” Adam Grant
I remember back in the 1980's there was a TV series called Dallas. I was a huge addict and had a crush on Pammy Ewing but also secretly loved Sue Ellen Ewing because she was a booze-addled victim repeatedly drawn back to the vodka. The producers of this series probably kept Dallas running for 2 or 3 sessions too long. The plot became more and more clichéd and in the end most people just stopped enjoying the program. There is a danger when we stay involved in things in the same way for too long that we become hackneyed. The new
Have you ever experienced someone’s whole being lights up because of something you said to them or did for them? It’s an incredibly powerful human skill to be able to transform someone’s entire being through your actions or words. I had this experience first hand and indirectly on a couple of occasions over the last few days. My son is a consistent high C /low B grade student. Now, I’m okay with that except for this niggling feeling I have that he’s not operating at his full potential. He has coasted very close to a D for
"A lack of confidence is at heart a misunderstanding of the way the world works." Alain de Botton