Eyes On The Prize

The temptation to take on tasks and responsibilities well beyond our self-perceived capacity to manage is something that should not be ignored.

Too often we limit our own potential by stepping back rather than stepping forward.

While there will always be prizes well beyond our reach that should not limit our attempts at achievement.

It’s by making an effort that we gain knowledge and strength. It’s in the trying that we grow.

The alternative is to live with regret. Far better to know than to wonder.

And one of the biggest mistakes we can make is to procrastinate. We have today and we should make the most of it.

Everyone has the capacity to do better and to be better. Not everyone will be champion or a world-beater but it is within us all to rise to greater heights.

Ambition tempered by commonsense can be a powerful and life-changing force.

Self-doubt is the enemy, past mistakes the anchor that can hold us in place.

Belief is something built from the inside out. It comes with self-knowledge and, more than that, self-acceptance.

When we take the time and make the effort to get to know and love ourselves we get to realise our potential.

It can mean the difference between sadness and happiness and that is more than enough to make it worthwhile.