Thursday, September 07, 2006
Thursday Sept. 7, 2006 - Year 4, Day 170 – knock knock
9C/48F, calm, sun burns through hazy horizon, hot air balloons racing off in the distance
coming back yesterday afternoon/evening from Edmonton was a spectacular sight; grain dust flying everywhere as harvesting is in full tilt & the sky was laden with forest fire smoke make the sun a blazing red ball in a cloudless sky . . incredible sunset
calm today, important meetings, catching up – that is until tomorrow noon when I depart for Provost, a trip to a Toastmasters Area Governors meeting + another opportunity for scoping out some countryside where my perfect weekend getaway might be lurking ..
last evening was spent on two things; preparing for today’s big meeting & spending time helping a friend see themselves by observing what anyone else can see – hard to capture either of these experiences in a handful of words
but these, I’ve read many times, capture it well:
‘Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.’ – unknown
or this one
‘Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.’ – Roberts Schuller
these are obvious truths we so easily avoid but the easily describe every success, every failure, every one of them, every time
don’t knock opportunity, or you’ll miss it when it knocks
knock knock
Mark