Category — Daily Doses of Encouragement

Today is a good day to declare your independence from doubt, defeat, disappointment, discouragement, limited beliefs, negative emotions, and fear.

Encouragement Always. 

Thomas Edison was one of the most prolific inventors in history, he had over 1000 U.S. patents.  However, he reportedly attempted more than 2000 experiments before he perfected the incandescent light bulb.  When a reporter asked Edison what it felt like to fail 2000 times, he said, “I never failed once.  I invented the light bulb.  It just happened to be a 2000-step process.”

Encouragement Always.

Learning from the past creates hope for the future… 

Encouragement Always.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer.  If you’ve signed up for a season, see it through.  You don’t have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Encouragement Always.

Live in the moment.

Encouragment Always.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Encouragement Always.

Never give up.  Never back down.  Never lose faith.

Encouragement Always.

Shut up.

Encouragment Always.

If you sometimes get discouraged, consider this fellow:

He dropped out of grade school.

Ran a country store.  Went broke.

Took 15 years to pay off his bills.

Took a wife.  Unhappy marriage.

Ran for house.  Lost twice.

Ran for senate.  Lost twice.

Delivered speech that became a classic.  Audience indifferent. 

Attacked daily by the press and despised by half the country.

Despite all of this, imagine how many people all over the world have been inspired by this awkward, rumpling, brooding man who signed his name simply,  A. Lincoln. 

(Reprinted from  an old Wall Street Journal Advertisement)

Encouragement Always. 

Pay attention!

Encouragement Always.