Tag: dailyprompt

Good Enough Really Is

What’s a fear you’ve overcome — and how did you do it?

I grew up with the fear of getting it wrong. I always felt that nothing was ever good enough for my mother, and that I was constantly being criticised when, in fact, she was probably only trying to do what was best for me, encouraging me to be the person she knew I could be.

Let’s be honest, most of us have had it drummed into us that “good enough isn’t” (good enough).

Then I learned the Pareto Principle. 80% of the benefit results from 20% of the effort. And I suddenly realised that good enough really is good enough. We aren’t perfect. We are going to make mistakes. There are very few, if any, areas in life where perfection is essential. So why waste 80% of our effort trying to correct that last 20% which no one except the most critical perfectionist (which is often ourselves) will notice, anyway.

Smile

What’s the best way to build self-confidence?

No matter what happens in life, smile.

When you smile, you feel good about yourself regardless of what’s going on around you. When you smile, you know you can cope. Smiling is the way to tell yourself, “I’ve got this. Nothing is going to take away my peace.”

Do you like me?

We’re not a failure just because no one “Likes and Subscribes.” The failure is in not even trying.

How do you build loyal subscribers?

Maybe the question is more, WHY do you build loyal subscribers?

We all want to be liked. No one wants to be disliked. But there’s a difference between the desire to be liked, and the need to be liked.

For many people, today, being liked is not something optional; it’s become a matter of survival. And it all starts with parenting.

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All roads lead to Rome

Share a proverb you think is completely wrong and make your case.

They don’t, and they never did.

It’s the same with our pet solutions. They’re not all right. But we use the roads to Rome proverb to justify our errors because our pride won’t let us admit to being wrong.