Friday Morning FYI – 8/29/14

Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI!

This week’s FYI comes in the form of something I spotted one morning while walking to work:

Mediocrity

When I saw this simple graffiti, I had to stop and take a shot of it. Four words that say so much.

Yes, ‘cowards’ is a really strong word. It works, though, when you consider that for most of us, greatness is a choice. We’re not 6 foot 4, 3% body fat natural-born athletes. We’re not musical prodigy with perfect pitch. For the majority of people, greatness is work. Hard work. Lots and lots of hard work. The good news is that work can be done by any of us if we just have the courage and the will to choose to do it.

Mediocrity is for cowards. Be brave enough to create something great.

 

Thanks for reading.

{RDj}

 

Friday Morninig FYI – 8/22/14

Welcome to the first installment of Friday Morning FYI!

This little slice of nonsense will show up every week with a precious nugget of wisdom I’ve collected/been told/made up/found under a rock/read on a fortune cookie fortune, or otherwise stolen over my time on this planet. If you’re wondering ‘Why Friday morning?’, because what else are you doing Friday between 6 and 9AM?

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Writer’s Digest Conference 2014 Session Wrap-up

WDC2014If you write and plan to publish, attending writing conferences is invaluable. There’s so much to learn, so many people to meet, and a lot of fun to be had. I recently attended my first conference, the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference in New York City, and can’t express how much of an impact it had on me. But since I hate “… can’t…”, I’m going to try.

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