Saturday, June 10, 2006
Moderation
If you don't make any attempt at all, then nothing will be
accomplished. Yet if you try too hard, you end up spinning
your wheels and getting nowhere.
If you don't eat anything at all, you will not survive for
very long. If you eat too much, you can seriously damage
your health.
If you're never with a particular person, it's impossible to
maintain a relationship. Yet if you're with that person
every second of every day, you have nothing that's fresh and
new to offer the relationship.
Moderation is an essential part of living a successful life.
Moderation makes the difference between something being
beneficial and harmful.
Some effort is good, and more effort is better. Yet too much
effort begins to have diminishing returns until it
eventually becomes counterproductive.
When nothing seems to be working, see what happens when you
back off a little. Moderation can very often turn things
around.
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