Yes, I do mean the Labor Day weekend. While I know it may be tempting to keep your nose to the grindstone, you'll actually accomplish far more when you take time off. Get outdoors, enjoy your family, catch up with friends, turn off the digital distractions!
You also deserve a chance to recharge your creative batteries.
I'm up in Highlands, NC this weekend, my last
hurrah before a committed Fall season.
Ooooh and I'm putting the finishing touches on a couple of cool ways to help you move it forward!
This is an oldie but a goodie, print it out and put it on your bathroom mirror as a daily reminder:
HOW DO YOU TACKLE YOUR WORK?
By Edgar Guest
How do you tackle your work each day?
Are you scared of the job you find?
Do you grapple the task that comes your way
With a confident, easy mind?
Do you stand right up to the work ahead
Or fearfully pause to view it?
Do you start to toil with a sense of dread
Or feel that you're going to do
it?
You can do as much as you think you can,
But you'll never accomplish more;
If you're afraid of yourself, young man,
There's little for you in store.
For failure comes from the inside first,
It's there if we only knew it,
And you can win, though you face the worst,
If you feel that you're going to do it.
Success! It's found in the soul of you,
And not in the realm of luck!
The world will furnish the work to do,
But you must provide the pluck.
You can do whatever you think you can,
It's all in the way you view it.
It's all in the start that you make, young man:
You must feel that you're going to do it.
How do you tackle your work
each day?
With confidence clear, or dread?
What to yourself do you stop and say
When a new task lies ahead?
What is the thought that is in your mind?
Is fear ever running through it?
If so, just tackle the next you find
By thinking you're going to do it.
Have a fantastic Labor Day weekend wherever you are in the world!
Hugs,
Melissa
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