The Three Ps

From the Norse Tarot, the Eight of Wands; from the Wolf Pack, 'Long Journey:'

          The combination of speed with the implication of a long road ahead reminds me of a phrase my father-in-law often used: "Don't rush off in the heat without a blanket." It sounds crazy at first until life's nature to change is remembered. Although things may be moving quickly at the moment, the destination or goal is still quite far away; what seems to be the status quo now might turn inside out tomorrow. The three Ps are called for in this case - preparation, patience, and perseverance.

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in your mind. ~David G. Allen

No Shortcuts

From the Norse Tarot, the Nine of Pentacles; from the Wolf Pack, the Long Journey:

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. 

― Beverly Sills

 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

― Lucille Ball

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

― Colin Powell

          Researchers have found that folks who lose a lot of weight in a relatively short amount of time radically alter their metabolism. Their metabolisms slow to a crawl (sometimes permanently), and their bodies no longer burn enough calories to maintain their thinner size. People who come into a large amount of wealth, such as through an inheritance or the lottery, rarely keep it because they have no idea how to manage money. Folks who decide to buy a business without any previous knowledge or training often find themselves with too many irons and no fire (energy). Sills, Ball and Powell really do know what they're talking about; there are no short cuts to finding what hard work and study will produce.