Pencils

We all start our learning journey with chalks and pencils. 

Pencils are a great way to begin. Because beginners are beginning to learn, and in that process you are bound to make mistakes. 

And you learn by correcting mistakes, so the eraser helps you to erase and correct them. 

When you write and draw in pencil, your eraser is your best friend - Anthony T. Hincks

Pencils change their purpose and meaning as life evolves.

You have learnt to take ownership of your actions and responsibility of the outcomes, and you now ink your intentions.

While lifelong learners would have pencil as a mascot right through their lives, pencils have more messages to sketch their minds.

My teacher once told me -” No one is perfect……. that is why pencils have erasers” - Mahesh Bhatt

With accomplishments come expectations and we are reminded to note our contributions in pencil.

We do this in order to let the contributions of others to our lives be in ink and always imprinted in our memory.

Never forget the favours done for you. Always forget the favours you’ve done for others - Sheikh Omar Suleiman

The ebb and flow of life brings its share of miseries, and those who treat these setbacks as shades of pencil, erase them.

Those who move on are those who progress, and those who keep brooding over the calamities remain rooted to their problems.

Life can be counted on what you deliver, what you achieve and what you accomplish, and not what you promise, aim, or hope.

An ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises – Mae West

Achievers make their commitments in ink and not in pencil. They have written it in ink because they wanted to honour it.

They know there will be challenges, and untoward developments that may make it difficult, but they will not erase their commitment.

And they know this is what changes their trajectory compared to the others.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down - Nelson Rockefeller

About the Author: Suneel Agarwal is a Brand Architect, and a Speaker Coach with over 30 years’ experience. Suneel consults with businesses on growth and branding. He helps people develop Communication Excellence to excel in their enterprise and career.

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