How the best keep going and never give up

A friend recently told me, “I feel like quitting. I’m tired of being told things will work out in the future, that relief is out there somewhere. Just give me the keys. Drive away. Leave everything behind.”

The best keep going

And then I told him the amazing turnaround story of Edwin Booth, the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

If anyone could ever justify quitting, it was Edwin Booth.

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Coach Prime and 99 year-old fan share key lessons for lifelong success

Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, and 99 year-old Colorado fan Peggy Coppom are bonding around winning.

Coach Prime and Peggy
Coach Prime and Peggy Coppom exult in faith that overcomes/Steve Blaising

Their discovery? Faith that doesn’t fail.

Winning faith is fueled by two characteristics.

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3 Great Habits of Wildly Successful People

The most wildly successful person I ever met said it all in his obituary.

“I really believe that people get in trouble in life not because they want too much, but because they settle for too little.”  Paul Markey

He developed one of the largest independent cities in the U.S., Stone Oak, north of San Antonio, TX.

But Paul was especially known for epic refusals.

He refused to settle for less in . . .

  • ethics
  • family
  • business

Even after tragedies, the kind most folks never get over, Paul never settled in mediocrity.

Successful means not settling
Pinnacle of success at Snowdon mountain, Wales/Khamkor/Unsplash

Success may be as simple as doing the opposite of what settlers do. 

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