This week, until the end of today, you can purchase Seize the Day from Kevin Mayhew Ltd at a 10 per cent discount, using the code SEIZE10 when ordering the title from the company’s website. With the book normally retailing at £14.99, that’s a saving of £1.50. Just type the code into the relevant box at the online checkout between the dates given.
Here, meanwhile, is the last reflection I’ll be posting this week from the book, to run alongside this promotion.
You think you are weak
They can do all because they think they can.
Virgil
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
Lao-tzu
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is to you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think you are weak,
but you are strong.
You feel you are inadequate,
but you are capable.
You believe you are imprisoned,
but you are free.
You assume you can do little,
but you can do much.
Do not listen to the voice of doubt within
that talks of life’s challenges
and questions your ability to meet them;
that rubbishes your goals –
your attempts to conquer your fears
and realise your ambitions –
telling you that you can’t
and you won’t.
Pay no heed,
for there is more to you than you imagine,
more in every one of us than we assume.
That New Year resolution:
it’s not doomed to failure.
That turning over a new leaf:
it’s not just pie in the sky.
That resolve to be stronger,
calmer,
fairer:
it’s not merely a pipe dream –
you can make it happen if you want it enough.
Perhaps a leopard cannot change its spots,
but a snake can shed its skin,
a crab substitute its shell,
a caterpillar turn into a butterfly.
So don’t just accept the given;
work to bring out the best within it,
to release your full potential.
Never resign yourself to what you are.
Become the person you would be,
and settle for nothing less.