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Imagine yourself ninety years old, on a porch, in a rocking chair looking back on your life.
Got that image?? Good.
Now let me tell you, studies show that the biggest regret from elderly people on their death bed, is not what they did, it’s what they didn’t do. The risks they never took. How sad would it be to get to the end of your life and realise you never truly lived.
This is your life, nobody else’s. No matter how much society, your parents, your friends want you to live, the way they want you to live, you run the show.
When you shut your eyes at night, the entire world ceases to exist and when you wake up, it’s born again.
This is your life and you’re in control. You’ve gotta do what feels right in your heart. Now go back to the rocking chair and think what will your future self say about the ideas that you never created, the books you never wrote, the words you never spoke – because you were tired, or scared, or you wanted to fit in and be cool.
But greatness ain’t about being cool. A great man or woman will never fit in cause they stand out. But I get it, you want it easy. But if greatness was easy you would see a lot of successful people. A lot of great people. Astronauts, professional athletes or super heroes. But, you don’t. You see a lot of people with big mouths making excuses on Facebook, trying to get likes – but they don’t even like themselves.
See, the difference between winners and losers is persistence. It ain’t talent, its persistence. My teacher told me about the bamboo tree. After planting the seed it takes five years for it to break through the ground. That’s five whole years of attention, care and water every day. If you miss a day it dies right there. But once it breaks through the ground after those five years, within five weeks it grows ninety feet tall.
So, your journey isn’t going be easy, it’s going to take time. And, when you have a dream people are going to laugh because they don’t see what you see. They will say what is that idiot doing watering the ground. They are incapable of seeing the plan that is planted inside of you. They have sight, but NO VISION. Only you have the vision. So let them laugh.
They’ll say, be real, be realistic, but realism is often and excuse for pessimism. And you can’t let other peoples opinion define your reality. So let them laugh but I guarantee that you won’t find one successful person in history that people didn’t laugh at, so stop worrying about your reputation cause your reputation is what people think about you. Your character is who you are.
Make the commitment wholeheartedly, stop thinking and just do it. Do it for you, the real you, because you deserve it. You don’t get a do over in life so live your dreams.
You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
