Keep a true compass

"This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick with it, work at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there."
— Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass: A Memoir (2009, p. 509)

Sarah Green writes some thoughtful works about Ted Kennedy’s life: “…his life provides an unconventional and, in my view, inspiring model of success. Much of today's management literature focuses on identifying high-potentials; leading your cleverest people; grooming your star performers. If you're here, reading this, you're probably reasonably ambitious yourself. But with that comes an attendant anxiety that if you haven't achieved X by age Y, you've failed...So for me, today, Ted Kennedy's life is a reminder that much can be achieved by late bloomers; that you don't have to have your career all figured out by the time you're 25, 35, or even 45. It's a reminder to look beyond your little cadre of overachieving stars for the person who doesn't have it all together. Don't count him out. There's always time.”

Thoughts worth meditating on…