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by hungryfaces | July 25, 2025 · 4:48 pm

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Your perseverance will get you through any troubles that you might be experiencing. However perseverance is useless by itself; it needs hope. Hope inspires you with strength and lends power to your perseverance so that you traverse your difficulties with more grace. You’ve got this.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another – John Dewey

Some of your goals are small. For example, your first goal should be, “Get Off My Ass.” You can get that one checked off today. When you get to the end of that goal, it’s the starting point for the next goal on your list.

“Do not watch the clock. Do what it does. Keep going.” ~ Sam Levenson

Ever get caught watching the clock and stressing out about the ticking seconds and thinking that you won’t be able to get your current task done in time? That’s a dangerous thing to do because the clock doesn’t stop unless the batteries go out on it. You should take the same approach and work with the clock rather than against it. It keeps ticking methodically and so should you. Make use of each second and don’t waste time because you’ll find that eventually you’ll be looking at the clock and stressing over it, which doesn’t produce anything.

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ~Jimmy Johnson

This is a cute way of pointing out the difference between what makes things extraordinary rather than ordinary. It really is a matter of a few degrees, going that little bit further to push things past the point of regularity. The key is that you want to always strive for the extraordinary. Doing a few extraordinary things might make you complacent, and ready to rest on your laurels. But then you run the risk of slipping back into ordinary behaviors. Always ask yourself if what you’re doing is ordinary or extraordinary and then give that little extra if needed.