As an author, when you tell your story or relate your feelings, or even report on an event, it’s way you present what you are writing and in essence, it is sharing yourself with others.

Whether you do write, or paint, or work in a factory, you are what world will see today. Go out on limb. Don’t let a single day go by that you don’t give your world all strength you can muster, and ability to know that you are reaching for that fruit at end of your limb. Maybe, and you may never really know, you helped someone start climbing their own tree and even reach that prize that at first seemed so far out of reach. Believe in yourself, reach out for new heights, and give only best example of what a person can do with life they are given. You will reach people, you will touch hearts, and you may just be one person that makes a difference to another between closing that prison door of self-imposed failure or opening a window and breathing in fresh air.

Whatever you do in life is never self-contained. Every action is like a pebble that is thrown in water. The ripples grow larger and larger. Your actions or attempts at living best life you can will have that same effect in world. If you don’t throw in your stone, then that ripple may not reach one person where only you can make a difference. Don’t let this tragedy happen. Give of yourself to whatever you undertake so that others may grow. Your own harvest will just be that much sweeter. ©Arleen M. Kaptur 2002 May

Take a look at all successful people you know. How do they act? How do they carry themselves? How do they speak? And most importantly, how do you think they dealt with failure before they became success they are now?

You don't have to have Einstein's IQ to figure out that they wouldn't be successful people today if they folded and got discouraged by their failed attempts, or if they stopped doing what they were doing because they didn't think any of their small successes were significant enough.

Success, even if it is small, is still success.

So wear success like a second skin and each of your small successes will build up into bigger ones!