GET OFF THE NAIL

There was a young man walking down the street and happened to see a old man sitting on his porch. Next to the old man was his dog, who was whining and whimpering. The young man asked the old man “What’s wrong with your dog” The old man said “He’s laying on a nail”. The young man asked “Laying on a nail?, Well why doesn’t he get up?” The old man then replied “It’s not hurting bad enough.”

Source | Les Brown, Live Your Dreams
(William Morrow Paperbacks, July 1994) page 194

PONDER AND CONSIDER

There are two reasons people make changes in their lives: inspiration or desperation. In the final analysis what really matters is not what happened to you but what you are prepared to do about it. Are you going to  moan, groan, and complain, shrinking into fear or are you going to wake up, get up, and tap into the seeds of greatness and possibility within you?

• “To have something you’ve never had, you have to be willing to do something you have never done.” | anon
• “If you don’t make things happen then things will happen to you.” | Robert Collier
• “Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.” | Henry Ford
• “If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.” | Anthony J. D’Angelo