Uplifting

We are sometimes our own worst critics. Have fun doing whatever it is that you do. Life is too short to criticize yourself. Sure, we can all learn from our mistakes, and in turn they will help us to be better, to work harder, to perfect our craft, whatever that may be. If someone else is critical of your work, that can be hurtful. But, don’t let it bother you. You are the one who invested the time, you are the one who put brush to paint, the starter on the car, the paperwork for the next big thing. You… Actually… Did it! So while others may have some snarky response or comment, just let it roll off you like water off a duck’s back. And we would all be wise to remember this age old quote by Teddy Roosevelt.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

― Theodore Roosevelt