Endings Can Be Beginnings

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in Life. It comes into us clean at midnight, and it's perfect when it arrives. It puts itself in our hands and wonders if we've learned anything from yesterday." --John Wayne

It's said that The Duke offered that thought not on a set, but during a TV interview in the waning days of his life. And it should bring us a mind-flash: just how did we start the day this morning? Doing what we do, interacting with radio ranks from corporate leaders to part-timers, across the miles we're engaged in limitless conversations -- most of them stimulating -- and we're often privy to someone's most personal reflections. Recently asked to summarize the state of today's radio temperament, the phrase "temporarily confused" came to mind.

Endings don't have to be booked as dead-end failures, even if you choose to walk away or shut down a project. After all, even the best jobs don't last forever, nor should they. So, from all corners and across time, here are some choice reminders as you face the day starting with one of my favorites from celebrated Grand Prix and Indy driver Mario Andretti: "If everything seems under control, you're not driving fast enough.

"Go as far as you can see. When you get there, you'll be able to see farther". Thomas Carlyle

"The person who says, "It's not possible" should get out of the way for those doing it." Trish Cunningham

"I wake up daily with the firm conviction I'm nowhere near my potential, 'Greatness' is a verb."Mo Ashley

"When someone tells me 'no' it doesn't mean I can't do it ... it means I can't do it with them." Karen Miller

"A year from now you may wish you had started today." Karen Lamb

"'Someday' is not a day of the week." Jan Dailey

"Try not. It's either do or do not. There is no 'try.'" Yoda

"Fall seven times, stand-up eight." Japanese proverb

"The question isn't who's going to let me? It's who's going to stop me?" Ayn Rand

"Work like you don't need the money." Anonymous

"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death." Hunter Thompson

No one can exist in our business without exhilarating challenge and gritty disappointment. Maybe, says Tim Ferriss, the question should simply be, "What would this look like if it were easy?"