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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Oh, Sister
Monday, October 3, 2011
Weekly Thoughts: Fighting Hard to Succeed
Sister Scholes, my COMM100 professor, has these little tidbits that she posts to her website every week. As our final project, we have to complete a portfolio (mine in the form of a blog) with these posted thoughts and our thoughts on these thoughts.
Yay thoughts! :)
Here is our post for this week:
Okay, first off, love Edison. Secondly, this reminds me of a book I read last year titled It's Your Time.
This book is pretty spectacular and if you haven't read it yet, you really really should. The first chapter Joel Osteen writes is a personal story from when he was running a marathon. I can't remember the words exactly, but I retell it the best I can.
So he's running up this extremely massive hill (think running from sea level to Death Valley) and he's almost ready to give up. As he takes a corner, he's thinking about stopping when a man walks by him and says, "You're closer than you think." Olsteen question what the man has just said, and suddenly he's filled with this power to continue on. This random line from a random man has Osteen sprinting round the bend to find that he's reached the top of the hill. Had he quit when he did, he wouldn't have been able to see the spectacular view the hill offered. These are moments when you realize that you are about to be a part of something amazing; it just gets harder the closer you get to it.
So my thoughts on this are that if you start something you need to see it through. If you have a goal, no matter how small, fight until you've succeeded. There is no point in going half way only to give up and never see the benefits you could have received.
As a college student, I completely understand this. I started majoring in biology, then wanted to go to international studies, and now am in communications. I feel the pressures of schooling and want to give up (trust me, my mother knows about many of the times I've wanted to give up) but I have to understand that the greatest things are worth fighting the hardest for.
Never give up, no matter how hard it may seem because just when you feel like you can't go any further... that's when you are about to reap the greatest of rewards.
The end. :)
Yay thoughts! :)
Here is our post for this week:
THOUGHT: "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success before they gave up." ~ Thomas Edison ~
Okay, first off, love Edison. Secondly, this reminds me of a book I read last year titled It's Your Time.
This book is pretty spectacular and if you haven't read it yet, you really really should. The first chapter Joel Osteen writes is a personal story from when he was running a marathon. I can't remember the words exactly, but I retell it the best I can.
So he's running up this extremely massive hill (think running from sea level to Death Valley) and he's almost ready to give up. As he takes a corner, he's thinking about stopping when a man walks by him and says, "You're closer than you think." Olsteen question what the man has just said, and suddenly he's filled with this power to continue on. This random line from a random man has Osteen sprinting round the bend to find that he's reached the top of the hill. Had he quit when he did, he wouldn't have been able to see the spectacular view the hill offered. These are moments when you realize that you are about to be a part of something amazing; it just gets harder the closer you get to it.
So my thoughts on this are that if you start something you need to see it through. If you have a goal, no matter how small, fight until you've succeeded. There is no point in going half way only to give up and never see the benefits you could have received.
As a college student, I completely understand this. I started majoring in biology, then wanted to go to international studies, and now am in communications. I feel the pressures of schooling and want to give up (trust me, my mother knows about many of the times I've wanted to give up) but I have to understand that the greatest things are worth fighting the hardest for.
Never give up, no matter how hard it may seem because just when you feel like you can't go any further... that's when you are about to reap the greatest of rewards.
The end. :)
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