The one aphorism that I remember and I hear most frequently is do not count your eggs before they hatch. I really like this, because it is so true. I hear people all the time say things that will happen and then they never do. I like to think of this in sports terms. This year the cardinals were ten and a half games out of the playoffs with less than a month left. Braves fans were guaranteeing a playoff berth and most cardinal fans were saying goodbye to the season. There was a month left, but they were so far out of the playoffs you would have been crazy to think anything was going to happen. The cardinals came back and made the playoffs. This is an example of not counting your blessings until they have completely finished. Most people don't really go by this rule because everybody thinks of either the best or the worst. They think that if it is almost over than it is over, and it is just human nature to do that, but you should think things through and wait until it actually happens, before you say anything.
I hear my mom say it all the time to me and I never listen to her because who cares, I am going to think what I think will happen. I think that something you can do if this saying implies to you and something that you are working on is to work even harder at it. Work hard so that it does come true and than you can actually say something because it is finished. It is like if you have an A in a class, you can not do anything about it and risk losing it, or guarantee an A by working harder and learning more about something. It is something that every person in the world should go by, but not enough people do. Work hard and do not think things will happen before they actually do.
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