Over the weekend Joanne was flipping channels and happened on to the beginning of the 1998 movie, You’ve Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. In the movie Joe (Tom) opens one of his big bookstores right across the street from Kathleen’s (Meg) quaint little The Shop Around the Corner. When it became clear Kathleen’s little bookstore could not survive the competition she decided to close the doors.
In reminiscing with her elderly bookkeeper Birdie she lamented that she felt like a failure. To which Birdie replied,
“You’re not a failure. You’re doing the bravest thing possible. You are daring to imagine you could have a different life.”
Whoa – how’s that for a different perspective. Now think about a time when you felt like a failure. Maybe it’s right now – you’re thinking about quitting your job, your business is tanking, you have not lost the weight you wanted to shed, or your relationship with your Dad is still dismal. If you draw a line in the sand and say you’re not going to do that anymore, you’re not failing; you are daring to imagine you could have a different life. And if you can’t imagine a different life you’ll continue to think about what you just came from – and will likely repeat it again.
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What an incredible quote. I can recall a few jobs in my past where I was so fed up I just walked out, only to land on my feet! It is incredible how the net appears after we leap. Yet, I still find it difficult to leap sometimes.
Sometimes you just want to scream this message! We can’t get time back, why live a life of wanting more but never doing anything about it?