Triumph and Disaster...

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We grow as business people, make mistakes , learn... fail, succeed.

Today is the most special day of all my ten years on the warrior forum... So exciting!

I wanted to share a line from Ruyard Kiplings Poem "If". Many times a line from this poem will be a theme for something Im experiencing. This poem has served me well through the years...and I have passed it on to many, and it has done many others well.

The lines in red are the ones that the inward man reminds me of today. On a particular day when its difficult to contain my excitement. "Balance".

" IF" - Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
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Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
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  • Sir John, may I ask why?
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    • WSO OF THE DAY! Can You Believe it?

      It reminds me of the line "If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostures just the same..."

      Be excited but be balanced, and in time of exultation allow love to bring to your remembrance the times of failure... and have humility.

      Very Humbling, and very exciting!
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  • Very Kewl, John.
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  • Thanks Sal. Its quite an honor. I feel really great today! I am such a fan and HUGE advocate of the warrior forum (cheer leader even)! Its really a cool feeling!

    Just gotta keep on listening to the primal voice!
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    • Sounds to me like you have it literally screaming now. Um...couldn't settle for a subtle whisper, eh?
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  • Congrats John, here's to another ten years!
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  • Congrats John. Hope it's the first of many great things for you this year.
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  • Way to go John! I wish you much success this year
    cheers
    -Will
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  • Now I can say for sure that Im so glad I have ingrained these bits of inspirational literature through the years... because; What a triumph it was to label my ad "wso of the day" !!!

    But then, how painful the next day to have to take it back off the ad... right?

    Wrong... because I reminded myself "Meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same..."

    So when you dont exult yourself too high in times of triumph , you also dont judge yourself so harshly in times of disaster... and you know both of them are outside circumstances... "neither affect the real person you are inside...unless you let them"



    In short, when you arent too moved by a major success, and you arent too moved by a major disaster, you are on an even keel viewing everything "objectively" and keeping it all in its perspective...

    What does this do for you?

    It enables you to keep being in vibrational harmony with success...

    You view success only as "my just reward" and nothing more or less.

    You view failure and disappointment as "Its just the cycle..." nothing more nothing less...

    It enables you to stay on the road and not veer off course in either success or failure...

    So instead of saying "Man I will never get a break like that again" you say:

    "I am doing well , and every now and then I get an extra good break... they're nice, and cool and they are to be expected when you are staying on course... but these spikes they come and go... another will come... and it will go.... I am staying on course either way through all of it. Circumstances change... but I am the same person who brought myself here...".

    Many things will come to pass... more brilliant victories are to come... more failures are to come... thise are just small pictures.

    In the BIG picture, I am consistently not moved from my main course by any of it, and thus I am always successful.

    In other words "spikes" are the gravy... what I AM and what I do daily is the meat and potatoes... if I keep focused on that then sometimes there will be gravy. sometimes there will be potholes...but in the BIG picture I am consistently succeeding... lol

    I dont know if Im saying this right for people to understand...

    But it all comes back to this


    "meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same".

    Yesterday was a brilliant victory, and today is back to normal, still victorious... so because I know these things I can say

    "Yesterday was a brilliant victory, and I got a gift... but today (normal) isnt bad either"!!!

    Managing the highs and lows in life is what Rudyard Kiplings poem is all about.

    I hope I communicated this clearly and it inspires someone.

    I hope someone can learn something from my sharing this experience here...

    More highs coming, and more lows... but I have to tell you...even if they werent: John is fine even on a normal day!!!

    Thanks Rudyard!!!






    So in closing my fellow warriors...

    What is all this?

    Its an "experience"... and should be viewed objectively as such for best results!!!

    Thanks for indulging this humble servant on yet another soap box tangent, meant to inspire!

    Just thought I would use this experience to share growth with my friends.

    -John

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