The life we live can be lived by choice or by default.
When we live on default, we let things happen to us and just get by day to day, day after day. Then you keep doing what you do and keep getting what you are getting. It never gets bigger or better, or even worse. So keep living the same life and nothing great ever happens to us.
And then... we could just make the shift and live life by a choice. We could CHOOSE to be better each day. Not just BEHAVE better but BE better. We could choose to BECOME great. We could choose to get to a higher level, every day. For getting out of a rut and getting to a different level, we need to make a shift.
If we make the same effort and walk the same path, even if it is making us successful, after a while, the grass begins to dry under our feet. The mud begins to get pressed harder. Soon there is a small groove where we keep walking. We are still successful but the groove gets deeper as we keep walking on the same path. And if insist on walking on the same groove, sooner or later, it gets so deep that we find we are in a valley and the landscape is no longer visible. The peaks get higher and higher and more out of reach, the more we walk on the same groove!
The peaks are not getting any higher, though. We are getting deeper and deeper into the groove we are carving for ourselves. What was once a success, is now a thing of the past. And the mountain top is going to get that much harder to climb to.
Once we realise that we are getting into a rut- even if it is one of success, the time is one to make a shift. May be just a little. A small shift will keep opening up new grounds under our feet. But the new ground needs attention. It is not easy to walk an unseen and uncharted territory. It takes courage. And it takes grit.
Greatness comes from BEING great... not aspiring to becoming great.
Life does not become great or successful. WE DO. It takes doing and making an effort- something MORE than just living from one day to another to be great. Success does not happen just by accident. And not by luck either. It is by conscious effort and planning that we craft success. We live that effort each day, each moment.
Life and greatness are a choice.
And we need to make that choice each and every moment.
We need to BE the person who is consistently successful, and cannot be otherwise. This success may be defined differently by different people, though. However, if you do not know what you want, how will you get it? Even if you get it, will you know you got it? If you do not know where is the bull's eye, and the room is dark, you may shoot a lot of darts and shoot them in a lot of directions. You may eventually hit something that could look like a lucky fluke. You would have to identify a general direction for hitting that bull's eye- right or left, up or down? And you would need loads of energy and plenty of darts.
Life will neither give you as many darts as you may need, nor will life freeze time for you to try your fill to hit a bull's eye you have not seen.
It would be a waste.
Would you like to BE great or waste your time. We all have the same amount of time in a day, and in a week, and in a year. And we all have a defining belief about ourselves that allows us to make that shift.
To the seed of greatness in all of us- we have the responsibility to BE the person we can be.
When we live on default, we let things happen to us and just get by day to day, day after day. Then you keep doing what you do and keep getting what you are getting. It never gets bigger or better, or even worse. So keep living the same life and nothing great ever happens to us.
And then... we could just make the shift and live life by a choice. We could CHOOSE to be better each day. Not just BEHAVE better but BE better. We could choose to BECOME great. We could choose to get to a higher level, every day. For getting out of a rut and getting to a different level, we need to make a shift.
If we make the same effort and walk the same path, even if it is making us successful, after a while, the grass begins to dry under our feet. The mud begins to get pressed harder. Soon there is a small groove where we keep walking. We are still successful but the groove gets deeper as we keep walking on the same path. And if insist on walking on the same groove, sooner or later, it gets so deep that we find we are in a valley and the landscape is no longer visible. The peaks get higher and higher and more out of reach, the more we walk on the same groove!
The peaks are not getting any higher, though. We are getting deeper and deeper into the groove we are carving for ourselves. What was once a success, is now a thing of the past. And the mountain top is going to get that much harder to climb to.
Once we realise that we are getting into a rut- even if it is one of success, the time is one to make a shift. May be just a little. A small shift will keep opening up new grounds under our feet. But the new ground needs attention. It is not easy to walk an unseen and uncharted territory. It takes courage. And it takes grit.
Greatness comes from BEING great... not aspiring to becoming great.
Life does not become great or successful. WE DO. It takes doing and making an effort- something MORE than just living from one day to another to be great. Success does not happen just by accident. And not by luck either. It is by conscious effort and planning that we craft success. We live that effort each day, each moment.
Life and greatness are a choice.
And we need to make that choice each and every moment.
We need to BE the person who is consistently successful, and cannot be otherwise. This success may be defined differently by different people, though. However, if you do not know what you want, how will you get it? Even if you get it, will you know you got it? If you do not know where is the bull's eye, and the room is dark, you may shoot a lot of darts and shoot them in a lot of directions. You may eventually hit something that could look like a lucky fluke. You would have to identify a general direction for hitting that bull's eye- right or left, up or down? And you would need loads of energy and plenty of darts.
Life will neither give you as many darts as you may need, nor will life freeze time for you to try your fill to hit a bull's eye you have not seen.
It would be a waste.
Would you like to BE great or waste your time. We all have the same amount of time in a day, and in a week, and in a year. And we all have a defining belief about ourselves that allows us to make that shift.
To the seed of greatness in all of us- we have the responsibility to BE the person we can be.
Nice & encouraging article. Keep writing!!
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