How often do you value the ordinary?
“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts."
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Michael Edmondson
Nov 27, 2019
How comfortable are you with ambiguity?
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. D
Michael Edmondson
Nov 2, 2019
How often do you gather strength from distress?
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Michael Edmondson
Oct 25, 2019
How often do you care what others say?
“There were some who would try to discredit my observations because I was a young untrained girl. I didn’t care what anybody said.”
Michael Edmondson
Oct 22, 2019
How often do you open every door?
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
Michael Edmondson
Oct 20, 2019
What is your deepest fear?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
Michael Edmondson
Oct 11, 2019
Do you rely on excuses?
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”
Michael Edmondson
Oct 10, 2019
Do you alter your character?
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered.
Michael Edmondson
Oct 7, 2019
Do you work on your creativity?
"By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
Michael Edmondson
Sep 16, 2019
Do you know that ability is not enough?
“Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with m
Michael Edmondson
Sep 3, 2019
Do you use what happens or try to control it?
American activist and journalist Gloria Steinem said “The art of life isn’t controlling what happens, which is impossible; it’s using what h
Michael Edmondson
Aug 28, 2019
Do you know the future is yet in your power?
Today is August 28 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is “How often do you remind yourself that the past cannot be changed...
Michael Edmondson
Aug 26, 2019
Do you believe you belong?
Cena told a crowd after one of his matches that “Sometimes you can try so hard at something and still fail. But every time you fail it's
Michael Edmondson
Aug 25, 2019
How often do you improve upon the original?
Today is August 25 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is "How often do you improve upon the original?" American singer Cyndi...
Michael Edmondson
Aug 21, 2019
Are you emotionally strong and focused?
In an interview about her career Padukone said “Never lose focus of what you want for yourself. People will try and pull you down.
Michael Edmondson
Aug 11, 2019
Do you realize you can rise to the occasion?
"But truth be known, most of us have the ability to rise to the occasion, overcome hurdles and obstacles, and actually succeed in accom
Michael Edmondson
Jul 19, 2019
Do you resign to the shutting away of life?
One of Millay’s well-known poems is Dirge Without Music where she writes “I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the har
Michael Edmondson
Jul 16, 2019
Do you realize it is never too late?
As C.S. Lewis noted "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Michael Edmondson
Jun 14, 2019
Can you be true to yourself?
"She was not a feminist, not a militant, not a strategist launching campaigns against sexual liberation," wrote William Johnson an
Michael Edmondson
Jun 7, 2019
Do you act or take notice?
Tippi Hedren took action, revolutionized an entire industry and in so doing empowered a group of Americans looking for a way to thrive in th
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