Tackling small tasks a bit a day
leads to greatness and it’s so okay
give your best in doing it well
at long last it’s results will tell.
♦
This poetry is my contribution to Oneta’s quote for last Writers quote challenge prompt:
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” Helen Keller
Interestingly, Helen Keller’s quote reminds me of a saying that my parents were fond of ‘anything worth doing is worth doing well.’
This principle ‘to give it my best,’ has stuck with me in the little and the big things and especially now as I wisen up each day. I may fail in my attempt, but I am certainly going to keep doing it until I get it right.
I find that chores that used to bore or irritate me in the past have ceased to be so because of my approach and positive attitude towards them.
I’ve been training my mind to see the beauty and the positive sides of even the most mundane task and the interesting thing is that my views and perspective keeps expanding by the day.
Even the weekly task of cleaning the house that I do with the kiddos, we turn up the music and jive to the beats while dusting and polishing and the chore just breezes by 🙂
Positive energy can make a lot of difference.
The Writer’s Quote Challenge is a weekly blogging event. Either make up your own sayings or use a quote from a famous author that you find gives you inspiration. Each Thursday, a hostess will post the prompt and all you have to do is participate.
Our hostesses are:
Bernadette at http://www.HaddonMusings.com
Jacqueline at http://www.Acookingpotandtwistedtales.com
Joan at http://www.familyparentingandbeyoned.wordpress.com
Oneta at http://www.onetahayes.com
Please join us. You can check this link for more information.
I look forward to seeing you.
Jacqueline
You’re right Jackie, music makes the house hold chores seem so much better … attitude is everything.
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Love your poem and this post! Thanks for the reminder of the power of perspective.
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Thank you too. I find out that positive perspective does change a whole lot and makes things better.
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“Rome was not built in a day”😊
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It took Donkey years to build it 🙂
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So true! If we are faithful (and grateful) in the small things, we will be blessed and entrusted with bigger things:)
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Certainly my dear. You are a woman of wisdom 🙂
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As are you:)
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🙂
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I also was raised with “anything worth doing is worth doing well” – a perfect companion to my Helen Keller quote.
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🙂 A principle that can take one far.
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