Dreams
I have always been a dreamer. I have never really given up on dreams. Could be why I stay in so much trouble. I think that it is super important to not forget your dream. Not forget who we were made to be. At the same time we have to remember that sometimes, when we shoot for a goal, we are given a window or door to an opportunity that may not be the glamorous path to success we have envisioned. It may be the bottom of the barrel and then we have to take that mess that is the bottom and make it the best we can possibly make it. It is super important to not pass up opportunities that are staring us in the face. On the flip side of that, I think that it is just as detrimental to allow the reality, that we won’t be superstars at the beginning weigh us down and or more importantly keep us from ever starting. Meaning: Just because we may be forced to deal with the bottom of the barrel on a project or situation, we should NEVER just set out at the beginning aiming for the bottom of the barrel. We should shoot for the best, then take what is given or made available to us and do the very best we can possibly do.
Mediocrity is NEVER acceptable. If we don’t push for excellence in EVERYTHING that we do, we are failing ourselves and those around us. If we are put here to be a leader and we don’t give it everything that we have, we are failing those that were chosen to follow us. We are failing those that are destined to be changed by what we are doing. There is something to be said about the saying that if you aim for nothing you will hit it. But there is also something to be said about common sense and reality. I believe that success lies somewhere in the middle. I believe we pray for miracles, shoot for the top and then take what we get – and make it the absolute best we can do. And then maybe just maybe the miracle we are given is not success on a silver platter, but an ability and a drive to break the odds, push thru the crap and truly use that poop to create something so fantastic, that it changes someone’s life for the better.
