Impress Yourself!

Carolyn Cordon
3 min readAug 14, 2022

We all have ideas and thoughts about our lives, and how they might be better, if this, or that, or the other. Sometimes we might come up with a goal, to impress someone — a coach, and employer, family member, friend, or who knows else.

But the most important to impress, is to do something good, and impress yourself! You’re the expert in who you are, and what you’re capable of, after all. Or if you don’t agree with that, I think you’re wrong.

It is amazing the way people can lift up and do amazing things, when they’re put to the test and have to step up and do something amazing, in terms of strength, endurance, etc.

Ordinary people do extraordinary things, and while their efforts aren’t always headline news, I think each of us should in fact put our efforts up in bright lights, and in the headlines of our personal news, in our own heads at least, and congratulate ourselves for our great efforts and achievements!

Photo by Harsh Gupta on Unsplash

The area where I’ll be walking doesn’t look like this one, and I won’t be waling on the road for most of it, just a bit perhaps closer to my place, where there’s far less traffic …

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Even if nobody else knows about what you’ve done, if you’ve gone above and beyond the normal actions done, celebrate what you have done, and maybe give yourself a reward. You…

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Carolyn Cordon

Writer & Presenter — Poetry, prose, blogging, editor Mallala Crossroad Chronicle. Words are my tools, I use them well!