{"id":2755,"date":"2013-08-13T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2013-10-18T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T00:31:52","slug":"guest-post-destined-or-determined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/guest-post-destined-or-determined\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post | Destined or Determined?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Steve Goodier of www.LifeSupportSystem.com<\/a>
\n__________<\/p>\n

A sky-diving instructor was asked, \u201cHow many successful jumps must a student make before he or she can become certified?\u201d<\/p>\n

He answered, \u201cAll of them!\u201d<\/p>\n

Sky diving, however, is the exception. Is your life built on a series of successes? Do you usually attempt something new and immediately succeed, then succeed again and again? Or more likely, do you find that it is the other way around?
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\nOur successes are often built on smaller failures. We fell off the bike a few times before we learned to ride. And we produced a few culinary failures before we baked a successful layered cake or prepared a satisfactory omelet.<\/p>\n

Tom Hopkins observes, \u201cThe number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.\u201d And Winston Churchill stated, \u201cSuccess is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.\u201d They both agree that discouragement, rather than failure, is the enemy of success. Those who can remain hopeful and focused, though they fail, are those who will eventually succeed.<\/p>\n

In all, Emily Dickinson is said to have written nearly eighteen hundred poems. Though fewer than a dozen were published in her lifetime and the first volume of her poetry was not published until four years after her death, Dickinson\u2019s success is attributed to the fact that she did not allow discouragement to keep her from her poetry.<\/p>\n

As she wrote so beautifully:<\/p>\n

Hope is the thing with feathers
\nThat perches in the soul
\nAnd sings the tune without the words
\nAnd never stops at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hope \u2026 never stops. Where would we be today had Emily Dickinson lost her enthusiasm for writing? Though largely unrecognized, she kept her desire alive and we now remember her as one of the great poets of all time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you\u2019ll get there, not because you\u2019re destined to, but because you\u2019re determined to.<\/p>\n

— Steve Goodier
\n__________<\/p>\n

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By Steve Goodier of www.LifeSupportSystem.com __________ A sky-diving instructor was asked, \u201cHow many successful jumps must a student make before he or she can become certified?\u201d He answered, \u201cAll of them!\u201d Sky diving, however, is the exception. Is your life built on a series of successes? Do you usually attempt something new and immediately succeed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,65],"tags":[419],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-web-fun","category-writing","tag-determination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}