jankinaround: "Slow and steady wins the race!"

About Me

Location: Metro Atlanta, Georgia, United States

I am a crazy busy Mom. I have started this blog because it looks FUN. I named it jankinaround. Let me explain....when I was in college I picked up this term. It means"just having fun, being silly,etc.." ( example: I'm here just jankin around, playing with my new blog! ) I have a fun husband of 19 years and 2 great kids. I have been on a music ministry staff for 14 years directing the youth choir! About me: I get focused very easily, If I had a motto it would be "Work hard,play hard." My life verse is Micah 6:8 ( ...And what does the Lord require of you?To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.) I like to have fun with my girlfriends ( okay - when I get focused they call it FOCUS FACE -- thankfully they love me anyway...) , I am sometimes reclusive when I get too busy, I am ALWAYS for the "underdog!" I LOVE Mexican Food.I have a new business with my very cool and fun partner -- my husband! We own a tutoring franchise and run it together. It is called CLUB Z! We are excited about this new adventure!! I am blessed to be a child of God -- that is the most important fact about me!

Monday, August 28, 2006

"Slow and steady wins the race!"

Yes - I have a favorite quote. It is from Aesop's book of fables. I have loved this little collection since I was a kid. You know the story of the tortoise and the hare-- great little object lesson. The hare just brags and brags about how good and fast he is -- so against the turtle -- he has no real competition.....or so he thinks. He thinks that he is slicker fellow, a more talented racer and that the victory will surely be his. Sorry hare, you have it all wrong. It is the slow and steady progress made by just being faithful to a task one step at a time that will bring you a well deserved victory. No amount of bragging or thinking you deserve to win will give you the victory. You just lost to a turtle who just plugged away a little at the time. Sorry, dude!

So - I want to hear YOUR favorite quote!!

6 Comments:

Dianne said...: I don't have any from childhood that come to mind, but these are two of my favorites.

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Ghandi

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." -- Cesare Pavese

Wise words on both counts.; 7:29 PM
Cantini #3 said...: Hmmmmmmmmm ....what's my favorite???? "A dream is a wish your heart makes." No, that's not it..... "If you built it, he will come." .... No, that's not it.... "Like sands through the hour glass..." .....nope not it either.....

Will Rogers said "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."; 8:09 PM
Dianne said...: Ohhh...Michelle! I DO love "Like sands through the hourglass..." YEA!!! THAT is my soap! Thanks for thinking of that one!; 8:37 PM
Tracey said...: My favorite quote is "Life is 10% what happens and 90% how you react to it" Zig Ziglar; 9:06 PM
Allycat said...: ". . .These are the days of our lives"

Actually that is a pretty good quote, if you think about it. Kind of a reminder to enjoy and appreciate today because that is what we have. It was my Grandmother's "program" (we had to go outside to play or sit quietly for that hour) and I was hooked on it again when I was a stay at home Mom.

This is one of my favorites - It is posted on the wall over Lauren's desk, "You can't reach the sky, only God can, cuz he's tall." by the one and only, Julia Paskvan - November 6, 2004; 7:55 PM
Julie said...: "how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood; 1:28 PM