Quotes

The wife and I relocated to a new city and state two weeks ago, and we're getting out new apartment set up the way we like it. It's smaller than our old house, so we've been going through boxes of stuff and putting it away, donating it to the Goodwill down the street, or throwing it out. Paring down is something that we've needed to do for a long time.

I went through one of my old plastic storage tubs the other day, and found some old quotes that I'd copied off someone else's cubicle nearly 15 years ago and used contact paper to preserve. I'm sure it's been said in various forms by countless people all over the planet, but my quote is attributed to Stephanie Scott, who said it was the motto of the 1992-93 Texas Tech Lady Raiders. She played guard on this team, which won the 1993 women's basketball national championship, four months before I enrolled there.

                 "Accomplishing anything is 10 percent ability and 90 percent desire. You just have to want to get down and do it."

This is a meaningful quote to me. It ties in to the 'give excellence' quote I have at the top of the blog. I don't know how many times I know what needs to be done but just can't motivate myself to make it happen.

As an introvert, lots of things scare me. Things I see others do regularly and seemingly in a natural way, frighten the hell out of me. This quote reminds me that personally or professionally, there are things I have to knuckle down and get done. And most of the time, it's not as bad as I make it out to be.