Posted August 14,2014….
Since moving to PC in 1994, I have experienced a number of disappointments with contractors, service people, and others who simply do not show up. There was, however, a cabinet maker who, on his truck, had the sign, “I SHOW UP!” It made me laugh. 90% of the results are accomplished just by showing up!
Brene’ Brown did a TED talk last year that started with this quote:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is …no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt