the foundation to whatever is you

There isn’t anything you need to learn, acquire, get into your life, stumble upon or get past, in order to reach your goal.

You need to embody it.
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I took a look if I could find a quote, I think it is from Zig Ziglar – someone I do not know anything about other than that I frequently run into their (20th century?) legacy in the form of quotes.

I remember one of the quotes being about 3 areas of life:
To be.
To have.
And to do.
But instead of Zig Ziglar the Google search brought me to an incredibly complicated (to the point of frightening) concept of:
“Auxiliary verbs”
Verbs which apparently were be, do and have.

It reminded me of why English class always made me feel my English was somewhere between poor and rudimentary.
I can only imagine how the kids who had not grown up bilingual must have felt.

However, this does unexpectedly prove my exact point in the matter!
Because auxiliary verbs?
They don’t actually do anything.

I do remember when to use have, and I HAVE USED it daily.
Or is it AM USING it daily?
Either way it’s not the simple past tense of “I used it daily”
because then it means I no longer use it.

What I also do every day is find errors like this in my writing.
In particular on Substack, where the whole post is sent out to readers.
Not just a link.
Whereas my regular blogs and posts on Instagram are very forgiving, because I can still adjust the text and the post-with-errors is not still visible in people’s Inbox.

However!
Does it matter?

Is the quality of my writing defined by my ability to correct every auxiliary verb before I post?
No.

It’s in the person I am, the ideas I have, and in the relentless drive that pushes me to my computer every day.

Just looked up Zig Ziglar.
The Be, Do, Have philosophy is indeed his core message.

You have to BE the right kind of person first.
Then DO the right things.
And then you will HAVE what you want.

BE. Do. Have.
And in that very specific order.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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