A Higher Standard

"Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everybody else."

~Henry Ward Beecher

Morale deteriorates when you have no worthwhile goals. There is a downward spiral: nothing really needs to be done so you do nothing. At the end of the day, you have done nothing, so your self-worth drops a notch. Tomorrow, there is still nothing to do, and you don't feel capable or worthy anyway.

There is only one remedy. Each day, I must get up, take a few breaths, and start in on something remarkable - something others may not have thought of or achieved. Today, I want to try out Google docs. A few of us in the community are asking others to proofread their documents. If we could share these out, we could do our markups directly on the Web. I will try this today.