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With archery, if you have good gear, you can't blame being bad on anyone but yourself.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.
Bad habits are easy to slip into and good habits are very easy to build. Don't allow yourself to do something that can destroy you.
Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.
You can't go into something good until you let go of all the bad stuff because you'll find yourself steady bringing up all the old in a new situation.
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
You cannot just be the feature act, not that that's a bad thing, because that's a good thing, especially nowadays. But as an artist, you want to express yourself and you want to know what you want to express.
What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.
There's such a thing as good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is when somebody else stresses you out, and good stress is when you stress yourself out over something you want to accomplish, which makes you want to perfect it.