Keepgoing !

Some people say mistakes can be the best teachers...

Adversity can also help contribute to greatness!

I’ll never forget the day I heard that Maya Angelou had had a difficult time being accepted by her writing group in a playwriting /fiction salon when she first started showcasing her own writing for critiquing sessions. I was sitting in a classroom myself, and feeling a bit intimidated by everything around me. Our professor told us that Maya Angelou used to gather in a room of someone she knew’s home with other writers with all different experiences and experience levels and they’d read aloud and then give their opinion on one another’s writing, whether it be playwriting or fiction. Often after Angelou read the room would be silent, and then someone would cough or something. Even though some people didn’t like what she was writing at the time, much of which was never published, that fact did not stop her from participating in the salon, learning , taking some great wisdom from the experience, and especially from keeping up with her own studying and writing. (What a sad loss it would have been to the world had Angelou simply stopped writing before she had really even started).

Some of the greatest women and men in their areas of interest: whether athletes, artists, presidents, began by being discouraged by circumstances or even by others at times….Sometimes because of their own inexperience…or sometimes because of any other host of reasons. But that’s just part of living and learning. Don’t ever let it stop you.








Discipline

Heart

Art

Drive…

Determination.

Bravery

Wisdom

A love of life

The ability to see mistakes as lessons,
and risks as opportunitues.

Imagination

Wings

Courage….you’ve got them in your pocket.
Whatever your dream is today: go for it.


(here's a cool gymnastics video)