try once more

Hello to all!

Right, where are you at? Still not thought of anything, or even tried to? Nothing wrong with that at all. That way, you can fail miserably without breaking a sweat. It's true. So is this. You never know what you are capable of, if you don't at least try. After all Einstein had over 100 tries before he got the lightbulb invented, and he was thought to be brilliant.

Besides, it really is kind of fun to struggle sometimes. Most of the time, we make things so much tougher on ourselves than we have to. Mistakes are not failures. They are learning curves and nothing you will ever learn will teach you what mistakes can. As a matter of fact, if it comes to paying a fortune for some shiny new object which promises to do everything for you apart from tie your shoes, then what are you going to do when your book/ business takes a wrong turn? You will have no clue, because you didn't learn a few mistakes on your way there.

This is when the law of averages comes in. And there is nothing on earth that exists that this won't happen. A romance springs a leak when you see him/her with another of the opposite sex, although the stranger may be explained away, if you have not met any of the family yet. You are writing a book. Fine. you have all the characters worked out, but your story needs something more. You invent another character to take care of this and he/she runs off with the story. Don't believe it? You should. It's happened to me countless times. i have needed someone who is less nice/bad/whatever to bounce the others off, because, if I do that, then they remind me of a soft tennis ball being whacked into the stratosphere.

You suddenly find that you may have to pull into some small island where there is unrest. You take fright and decide you are not going to sail around the world after all. Just cover the so-called 'safe' areas.  So what's the point in going at all. Although there may be unrest, the island may also be fantastic where the unrest isn't. So you deprive yourself of beauty, adventure and maybe a fine time. Oh well, fair enough.

Struggle is part of life. There is no way you can get away from it. But think of the rewards when you beat whatever it is that you are worried about. And you may get lucky too. The huge struggle that you envisioned may just be a small hiccup when you finally confront it.

So, why not just try? If Einstein was determined enough to keep going over 100 times, then surely you can try once or even three times.