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Why wait for your ship to come in?

Posted by Chatsworth Consulting Group on March 12, 2012


“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it.” Jonathan Winters

I like this idea. I’m not the best swimmer, but I’ve spent too much time waiting for ships to dock so that I can get on them and sail away. I love the visual of swimming out to meet my ship – finding it and catching it.
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Do you feel like giving up? Don’t – give it one more chance

Posted by Chatsworth Consulting Group on February 13, 2012


“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” John Quincy Adams

Ever notice that sometimes when you are about to give up – when you’ve tried too hard or too long and the obstacles seem too great, when you just don’t have it in you to keep going – as if by magic, you have a breakthrough. I see this in my own life, when the prospects with whom I have been following up with for years finally bring us in for a project. I witness it in the lives of my clients, when the proposal they’ve put before their boss, which has seemingly disappeared, is brought back as a topic of discussion…and then funded. I notice it in the life of my son, who has literally cried his way through homework because handwriting is so difficult for him, and then one day he found himself easily putting pencil to paper and capturing his thoughts without struggling. In each one of these instances, frustration has been high and we’ve all been at the “breaking point,” but when we’ve been patient, when we’ve persevered, it has been magical.
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