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It’s an incredible gift to be able to make your own fun.
the reality remains that our bodies need more varied foodstuffs that facilitate health and digestive functions, but you don’t have to like it.
I like nice people, and if you are endeavoring to be one, I say, “Great!” I, too, am endeavoring to be a nice person.
I suppose I had to learn on my own that there are no shortcuts to anything, be it success or just winning people’s attention for the right reasons. Because I’d eventually learn that nothing beats hard work.
I am speaking of our tendency as humans to try to do too much. People love to bite off more than they can chew.
A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
“it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Damn it all, you have been given a life on this beautiful planet! Get off your ass and do something!
Loyalty. Honor. Have a set of rules, a code of ethics, that you will do your best to uphold and defend,
Don’t be an asshole.
If you engage in a discipline or do something with your hands instead of kill time on your phone device, then you have something to show for your time when you’re done.
luck is when opportunity meets with preparation,
Whatever it is that makes you different, weird, unique from the others, it is that, if anything, which will see you prosper.
No matter our age, if we always have a project to which we can apply ourselves, then we will wake up every day with an objective, something productive to get done. This allows us to go to bed at night in the peaceful knowledge that we have done some good, gained some achievement, however small.
Practice will keep you sharp,
Watch the masters at work,
Be prepared. Don’t be a lazy fuck.
Do your homework.
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
Jesus, man, look at yourself. The sun is up. You should be getting something done!”
What I had learned was that I don’t achieve my happiness by taking it easy, but instead by using my time and abilities to be productive.
A wonderful aspect of having a few heads in the shop at any given time is the different perspectives we all can bring to problem-solving. I look forward to all of my fellow OWS craftspeople surpassing me in experience so that I may begin to dodder in my age and lean upon their superior know-how.
