So they settled!
Are you listening to that small voice inside, or are you conforming to what the world believes you should be? Do you come up with excuses or results? Are you reading this as something to read, or are you looking for the seed of change within it’s message?
We all get signs, instructions and directions along the highways of life, are you using them? There is a course that has already been predestined for your life, are you following your plan? People try to dress up their exterior, join social clubs, abuse alcohol and drugs, all to avoid themselves. Are you one of them? We live in a world where people take on an identity instead of discovering their own identity!
People are wearing uniforms! Conforming, blending in, without any unique distinction. Your next door neighbors were to afraid to explore themselves, afraid to step out on faith, afraid to follow his/her directions, afraid to live… so they settled!!! Settled for what… one vacation a year with a 30 year fixed mortgage and bills until their number is called? That’s not life! No wonder there are so many diseases, and miserable people. The life as a conformist is unfulfillable!
Hoping their kids will do better. All to have the cycle repeated. Change starts with you! Stop trying to pass the baton without you running your leg first! Most parents live in the fairly tale world “Hopefully my kids won’t have to struggle the way I did”. Well it first starts with you, it’s what you live that is instilled in a child, not what you say! Don’t hope your child will do better, become your child’s greatest example. Live a life of confidence, take risk, speak up, live by faith, don’t socialize with the naysayers, take action, make goals for your kids to see, live by integrity, persist, persevere, strive, and grow. Encourage your child to pick his/her own clothes, by you removing your uniform.
Your uniform isn’t in the clothes, it’s in the mind!
Action: Discover your identity! YES! It takes a lot of energy and time, aren’t you worth it?
Tags: Identity, Passion, Personal Development
June 16th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
If you don’t fill your time with empowering, meaningful activities, someone else will fill your life with THEIR meaningful and empowering activities. Take your pick - it’s that easy. Either you have the discipline to shut these people out, and be the master of your time, or you don’t. Sure, there are things in life called obligations (taxes, maybe a full-time job) but there is ALWAYS a way to find an empowering meaning. Always. The only reason you’re settling in your life is because you WANT to. The action is too painful, the benefits of empowerment aren’t clear enough to you, it’s easier to stay where you are.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
White collar conservative flashin down the street
Pointin their plastic finger at me,
Theyre hopin soon my kind will drop and die but
Im gonna wave my freak flag high!
June 16th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Very true. Fortunately or unfortunately I have some personal experience with this topic. Sometimes it’s really good stuff that I was doing. We can’t do our best or have the same level of passion if we don’t understand our unique role. Some things just fit and some things just don’t. I am much more passionate and happy now that I know more clearly who I am.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Issac
How many things have you tried before you found out who you were? Did you take risk to discover yourself and find your passion? It’s very clear to me a lot of people never listen to the voice inside of them. They’re moves are made because they feel it’s the “normal thing to do”. Ultimately finding no happiness and years of regret. My question to you is, how did you find out who you were?
June 16th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
i learned more about who i was after i learned more about who i wasn’t.
it has taken a great deal of trial and error and will continue to do so as the years roll by. but at least during the second half of my life, i will have given myself to what i feel will create positive change along the way, for myself and others if possible.
if it is only a dream, it is one that is worth dreaming.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Spostareduro,
I totally agree with you! It was the things and activities that I realized weren’t apart of me, that made me realize who I was. Then conviction was born!!!
Kenneth R Williams