01/03/2018
All of us were born to make a unique contribution in life. As unique as our individual fingerprints, is the gift that we were all born to give. No one else can give it...
So many of us are lost, unhappy or just drifting through life because we've never learned how to build a lifestyle that allows us to make that contribution every single day - which is what gives our lives meaning, purpose and greatness.
It is a beautiful thing to wake up every morning and contribute to life what you know you are born to give.
It doesn't mean we're perfect, or anywhere close to it. But it gives us a sense of peace, confidence and security and freedom that nothing else can give.
And yet too few of us ever experience that freedom.
What keeps us from contributing at a much higher level that will bring us that higher state of peace and happiness in life?
The biggest impediment on the road to reach this place of peace is fear. Fear forms a mental prison that restricts our thoughts and actions:
"What will my friends and family think of me if I have the audacity to think I can do this?" "What if I fail?" "I don't want to look like one of those lame people who say what they are going to do, and then have to admit that they failed..."
Who wants to fail? So, we avoid failure by not trying at all.
And we play small. And we stay small.
We stay within the box that others have prescribed for us and that we have accepted for ourselves.
And this box is our personal prison that exists to keep us small.
Not just small in the sense of not having a job or business and being broke, hungry, naked and out of doors.
But, being small in whatever capacity we work in every day - knowing that we can be more, but settling for what we have out of fear that if we strive for more, we might lose the little that we have.
We are not just talking to and about people who we consider down and out.
It happens to those of us considered as bums, laborers, directors, vice presidents and CEO's alike.
At the same time we feel this fear, we also hear from somewhere deep within, a quiet voice of encouragement whispering to us that we can be more. We can do more. We can have more.
Unfortunately, most of us ignore, ridicule and then silence this voice of encouragement, saying, "not me"!
But, if not you, then who? No one on earth can give the unique gift that you are given. As unique as your fingerprint is your unique gift. If not you, then who?
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