Picture these.
Coming home you find yourself tired, cranky and almost ready to burst. You walk into the room where you always sit. You think, “My feet are dog tired.” You use each opposite foot to help push off the shoe from your other foot. You wiggle your toes. It feels good. It makes you think how much your head is thumping inside. You did not notice how much your body ached. But now your feet feel so much better. You made it. Your breathing has now changed. Your heart is starting to relax. You have come to the end of an exhausting day of work.
You got up late. You are way behind. You need to be somewhere in 15 minutes. You are not ready. Where are your keys? I can’t believe this. Not today. Screw it; it is not worth all the worry. But you are still worrying about it anyway. Where the heck are your keys?
Why is that lady stopping her car 15 feet before she reaches that line at the stop sign on my left? Hey, she did not come to a complete stop. I stopped before her. Hey, hey, hey…She is going that little tramp! It is not your turn! You little stink! You had no desire to allow me the right of way. You turd! What's the matter with people?
Where is the achievement in these pictures? Can you find it? Make sure you know how to look for achievement. Many do not.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles
Bear up under loss. Fight the bitterness of defeat. Vanquish anger. Smile when evil haunts your vision. Achieve when achievement seems impossible. Ignore the distractions. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Achieve anyway. Next time, walk upstairs, take your shoes off and put them away. Take your socks off and place them into the dirty wash basket. Sit in your side chair and rub some penetrating soothing lotion on your feet. Put your sheepskin soft slippers on and go back downstairs to rest in your favorite chair. Now you have achieved! “Short cuts” suck! That goes for your keys, too! Put them where they belong. Achieve it. Drive with courtesy. Achievement, it all comes in doing all of the little things well.
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