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Thorough preparation makes its own luck.
-- Joe Poyer
 

 

Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Challenge into achievement

Do it because it’s difficult. Taking the easy way is cheating yourself out of the most enriching experience.

Do it because it’s challenging. When you willingly undertake a challenge you’re compelled to grow stronger and more capable.

Avoid buying in to anything that promises to solve all your problems for you. Not only can that promise never be met, if it were to somehow be possible it would strip you of all relevance.

Easy and effortless are overrated, but that’s not the worst part. They’re also traps that threaten to rob your life of meaning and fulfillment.

You are destined to resolve challenging situations, to put forth creative, innovative, effective effort. Live true to that destiny.

Your world is filled with opportunities to transform difficult challenge into real achievement. Experience life at its best every time you do so.

— Ralph Marston

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