tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12050720771064818662011-04-21T21:45:27.694-07:00souixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16892611339924459732noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205072077106481866.post-62438204612084052252008-08-09T05:55:00.001-07:002008-08-09T05:57:50.924-07:00I have a tendency to “over think” responsibilities until they become extremely overwhelming. This need to be perfect in everything I do is, perhaps, a residual effect of living my younger years in chaos and today I discovered if sometimes I just do enough to get by, well guess what? It is good enough.<br /><br />Recently I went through an exceedingly difficult time on my journey through life and found myself not having time to complete a paper for a summer course. Every day I would sit at my computer in an attempt to write…and every day it was fruitless; I could not find the words to start my paper.<br /><br />A few days ago I started with a single sentence and continued to type until the paper was finished. The secret was just to start putting some words on the paper.<br />My husband has some words of advice, by Calvin Coolidge hung up where he can read them daily:<br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”</span><br /><br />Today, as I reflect back, I have discovered how true those words are.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1205072077106481866-6243820461208405225?l=susanneslifelesson.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>souixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16892611339924459732noreply@blogger.com2