If you haven't seen this before, I enjoin upon you that you will not regret it.

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Feel free to opine, share videos, or otherwise participate with regard to inspiration, resolve, conviction, etc. It may take me some time, but this is a concept/subject about which I have LOTS to say, so if you feel likewise feel free to add or just watch my song and dance.

Enjoy

STOP GIVING UP.

(the all-caps are quotes obviously)
But he's right you know. I can't authoritatively or evidently reference examples (by the nature of the subject, obviously I'm not him) but first and foremost, how many endeavors fail because a lack of conviction/resolve in the principle?!?

Seriously, I'm of the mindset that this needs more attention.

Before one even engages the critical capacity to produce, one MIGHT benefit from a thorough evaluation WRT the LEVEL/DEPTH of conviction applied; otherwise you're working with gilded wall-paper on cobb bricks.

Good morning ... *beams*

Shezbeth, seriously you are hitting a nail square on the head, one that IMHO merits a deep inner pondering. To which I will add the preference I have for the word Knowing, ie: an inner state of self reflection where "In light of the evidence, a conviction seems certain."

Ahem, the dictionary tends to use "belief in something as a conviction" so the only agreement I made with the definition is the above one. Pulled out the synonyms some, IMHO, hit the name a little more true.

assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, doubtlessness, face, positiveness, satisfaction, sureness, surety ...

A state of Knwoingness comes from a hard kernel of inner truth where one can say beyond a shadow of a doubt, in light of the evidence, a conviction seems certain. Over time, challenged and tried one begins to perceive a state of Being which can be described as profluent - flowing copiously and smoothly.

So we lay down some tracks here, threads to follow ... ^_~

Shezbeth wrote:STOP GIVING UP.
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(the all-caps are quotes obviously)
But he's right you know. I can't authoritatively or evidently reference examples (by the nature of the subject) but first and foremost, how many endeavors fail because a lack of conviction/resolve in the principle?!?

Seriously, I'm of the mindset that this needs more attention.

Before one even engages the critical capacity to produce, one MIGHT benefit from a thorough evaluation WRT the LEVEL/DEPTH of conviction applied; otherwise you're working with gilded wall-paper on cobb bricks.

There is a distinction between a 'completed' work/product/endeavor/etc. and a successful one.

While there are obvious examples of situations that do not require profound conviction, those that DO are never successful if done half-heartedly.

In abstract, one doesn't defeat a strong chess player without intending to.

Doing one's best with conviction does not afford the opportunity for an 'attempt'. In context, an endeavor that is incomplete is always an attempt, but as Yoda so classically put it, "Try not. Do, or do not; there is no try."

... and to include the words of Mr. LeBeouf, there is no do not.

Do.

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With Love
Eelco

I could go both ways with it. I appreciate the validity of the F- It Way, but at the same time I must qualify it by suggesting - in my experience anyway - that it is the exception rather than the rule.

Particularly, I have observed how the FIW is both present (implicitly if not deliberately) and excessively prominent in a greater percent of the population than I would suggest is appropriate.

Here's another favorite of mine; maybe you've seen it but if not, I hope you enjoy.

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Let's be heroines and heroes.

Oh snap!, 2015 just came out!

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Wow, those People Are Awesome folks are really on a roll! Workplace Kung Fu anyone?

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Shezbeth wrote:If you haven't seen this before, I enjoin upon you that you will not regret it.

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Feel free to opine, share videos, or otherwise participate with regard to inspiration, resolve, conviction, etc. It may take me some time, but this is a concept/subject about which I have LOTS to say, so if you feel likewise feel free to add or just watch my song and dance.

Enjoy

In this video...

I saw watermelons. I claim this one.


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Here's another one that was dropped in my lap, which I hope you might enjoy.

Freedom

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(special thanks to Matt with Demolition Ranch for both entertaining me, and for dropping it in my lap, if you're bored on Youtube, check him out there and with Vet Ranch, he's a stand up guy)

Edit: P.S. Its even better at 1.25 speed,....

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