Greet conflict

 "Greet conflict in a positive way, be ready to learn something new or improve the relationship."

Stephen Haunts

step right up

"success goes to the man who’s still able to step right up to the threshold of risk, conflict, and challenge – who can talk to people face-to-face, have difficult conversations in person, ask directly for what he wants, put himself out there."

source: Sunday Firesides: Shorter Weapons; Longer Boundaries

Brett and Kate McKay • June 22, 2019

These are the times...

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. -- Abigail Adams