Thoughts on Today’s Quote
What holds us back in life more than worry? A new experience offered becomes something to worry and fret about, often to the point of paralysis until the opportunity is lost. Then we fret about having lost the opportunity.
The energy we waste on worry. What do we get in return for worry? Nothing except more worry and more energy wasted.
What if, instead of worrying, we jumped into new adventures and just looked and moved forward?
It wouldn’t have to be a headlong dash, it could be a slow steady pace, taking in the experience. As we move forward we can judge and assess our progress. If it’s not working like we feel it should, we always have the option of adjusting the angle of the path or even turning around.
Even if we turn around, it’s not time wasted. It’s time learning what you didn’t want so you can clear the path a bit more toward what you really want.
I started into this path of learning STEEM and Steemit when I signed up as @shadowspub. I’ve been just over a year learning and getting more confident not only as a writer but in the platform itself.
There were times I could have just stopped and left but I always found something else to explore, like starting these meditations on their own account. I didn’t worry over it, once I made the decision, I made the account and started working with it.
Who is Tracy Kidder?
Tracy Kidder was born in New York City November 12, 1945. He became a writer of nonfiction. With the strong story lines and the personal voice he brings to his writing he’s considered to be a literary journalist.
He attended Harvard University. Originally he majored I political science, switching to English and graduated in 1967 with a BA. He then served two in the Vietnam war from 1967 to 1969.
While attending the University of Iowa he wrote his first book, The Road to Yuba: A Journey Into the Juan Corona Murders. He graduated with a MFA from Iowa in 1974. The book was a critical failure but the work was commissioned by The Atlantic Monthly. He continued to write for them as a freelancer throughout the 1970s.
Kidder didn’t believe his Vietnam experiences influence his writing. While he was writing for The Atlantic he wrote several essay and stories about the Vietnam war that were considered to be some of the finest reporting to come out of Vietnam.
Soul of a New Machine was his second book which won him the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for General NonFiction work. He has explored a wide range of subjects with his books and won several literary awards.
In the fall of 2010 he was selected to be the first A.M. Rosenthal writer-in-residence at Harvard’s Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. There he teamed up with Richard Todd, his former editor at the Atlantic Monthly, to write books on nonfiction writing, Good Prose: The Art of NonFiction.
*I will try to find information on the author of the quotes I share. I wont always be successful.
Don’t know about you, but I find it interesting to know who the person was that anyone took the time to record or quote that person.*
About Coffee Time Meditation
I love being inspired by other people’s quotes. I thought I’d start sharing some quotes that inspire me along with my own thoughts the quote evokes within me. So, think of someone, like me, sitting quietly with the first fresh coffee of the day and mediating about the words of the quote. That would be me, or it could be you.
I invite you to share your own thoughts on the quote in the comments.
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