Settle Down maybe, but not for Less.
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I have been thinking a lot the last couple of days about what happens when we “settle down”.  I remember as a kid hearing “OK, settle down.” As a parent now my kids hear this from me. And if they’re breaking furniture or bones then “settling down” in that context is probably not a bad thing.Â
But in the bigger context, the life context… too often settling down seems to equate to settling for less, and settling for less equates to settling for less than the best. By best I mean “your best” and “my best”. The minute we stop striving to be and become our best…we settle for less. Maureen Dowd said it this way,
 ”The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. “
If your Tom Cruise and your worth millions, or if your just a regular Joe like me and you happen to be on Oprah… don’t let anybody tell you to “settle down”. You just JUMP AWAY!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Lately I have been amazed at how many businesses of many types have underwhelmed me due to the less than okay service or appearance — or settling… Timely thought. In this economic time we should all be ramping up or jumping!