T(s)FTD

Take a risk.

Take a chance.

We do not have to indulge in obviously foolhardy or self-defeating risks, but we can allow ourselves to take positive risks.

We cannot afford to keep ourselves paralyzed.

We do not have to keep ourselves stymied and trapped out of fear of making a mistake or failing.

Naturally, we will make mistakes and fail from time to time.

That's part of being fully alive.

There are no guarantees.

If we are waiting for guaranteed courses of action, we may spend much of our life waiting.

We do not have to shame ourselves or accept shame from anyone else for making mistakes.

The goal is not to live life perfectly.

The goal is to live, learn our lessons, and make overall progress.

Take a risk.

Do not always wait for a guarantee.

We don't have to listen to "I told you so."

Dust yourself off after a mistake, and then move on to the success.

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OR: (maybe AND......)

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If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.--Robert Eliot

Too often, we have lived with a single answer to every situation: win.

We saw our friendships in competitive terms, so we couldn't let our guard down.

We looked at life as a challenge to be conquered rather than something to be enjoyed.

Therefore, our first impulse was to fight and come out a winner.

Many of us have played life like a game with only winners and losers, and we have neglected the deeper meaning in our experiences.

Living that way, many of us have felt like losers.

We all experience moments when a situation is much more powerful than we are.

Those moments feel like defeat unless we allow them to open a whole new viewpoint on our lives.

When we can flow with a situation, which will have its own way anyhow, we have become more mature.

We can breathe a sigh of relief because much of the tension in our lives is reduced when we stop trying to conquer every moment and instead simply flow with it.

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*chuckling*

Mature? LOLOL