own it oprah

 

Maria Robledo sent us this very wise quote from Oprah whose ‘Fail at it. Try again.’ echoes Samuel Beckett’s great ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail better. We especially like Oprah’s spin on it:This is your moment. OWN IT‘.

tightrope walker vintage photo
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…imagine if we all ‘owned it’…!

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Thanks Maria!

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4 replies on “‘do the one thing you think you cannot do’

  1. Hmmmm. I wonder if this applies to marriage? How many times do we get to try before we really are failures?

  2. Isn’t this just life ? How often have we done things that we thought we could not do, minor or seemingly more important .
    We do improve every time we try , even when we don’t reach our goal (or what we thought it to be ..) .
    Don’t run around thinking you cannot do something , don’t concentrate on that . We create our own obstacles .

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