A bend in the road is not the end of the road.... Unless you fail to make the turn. Learn to Bend!!

INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:
"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


JUST BEGIN AGAIN!

Have you ever found yourself at the "end of the road"? Whether it was by our own choosing, or by forces beyond our control, we've probably all faced that moment when success came to an end and we were left asking, "What now?"

The wonderful thing about ending is that there really is no such thing, not if you turn it to a new direction. How liberating, how wonderful the feeling that we can start all over again, especially if the ending seemed painful or disappointing.

Sometimes we just become too comfortable in our own shoes. Comfort and complacency often breed a lackluster attitude. We forget how talented we really are without the challenge of something new. Sometimes our success becomes a burden to us, filling others (and ourselves) with expectations that may no longer interest us.

Consider the unusual case of Steve Jobs. He was fired from Apple early in the game, and while he found success elsewhere, his ending there actually prepared him to come back and raise the technology company up from the ashes.

Giving the Stanford University commencement address in June of 2005, Steve Jobs told the graduates, "I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life."

So take a bite from that Apple and chew on it awhile. When you're facing a difficult ending, make sure you go out with a bang!

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