Live your Greatness Podcast

There is no question, when you ask the majority of boys and girls, what they want to be when they grow, that they respond with just about anything other than a desire to be Average. You never hear them shout from the classroom; I want to be average. Hardly anyone has aspirations to live a basic, boring, Average life. It’s just not one of those things that are desired. So why, when everything is said and done, we live and die Average. Never accomplishing half of our dreams. Exploring those foreign lands, obtaining the job we always wanted and marring the perfect partner. Why don’t those things happen? The answer is horrifically simple. We are plagued with the disease of Average.

When Greatness is spoken of, we usually think of very important, famous, or influential people, that we as a society deem worthy as Great. This comes in many forms, athletes, musicians, movie stars, politicians, businessmen and women, and philanthropist. But why are they Great? Is it because they make a lot of money, everyone knows them, or because of their influence? When we see a person, it’s usually pretty easy to identify if someone is Great, Michael Jordan, Will Smith, Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and President Obama. All of these individuals did different things, and all are considered Great. But can people who will never make the game-winning shot, become President of the United States, or build a multibillion-dollar business, Achieve the status of Great.

Risk, the word might as well read as unknown. Everything about Risk is an unknown because if we knew the outcome, there would be no Risk. That unknown is what scares us not to take action, paralyzes our movements, or pushes us to achieve our dreams and goals. Risk isn’t just a negative, it, in fact, has a more positive effect on our lives, then we may give it credit.

Failure is the one thing in life people try to avoid at all costs. They try to avoid it so much, that they decide to let life pass them by instead of doing something that will lead to failure. But at this point in your lives, you have probably failed more times than you can count. Test or exams at school, asking a girl or guy out and getting rejected, losing in a game, and the list goes on. It’s impossible to count how many times you have failed or even failed in one day. You went to the grocery store forgot to get something, and now you failed your mission of getting everything at the store. You slept in, great; you failed by getting up on time. Late for work, cool, you failed to get to work on time. The list of failures goes on. So why do we let failure control the actions that we take? Why do we let the thought of failure hold us back from following our dreams?

There’s no secret that we as humans, feel like we never have enough time. It doesn’t matter what we are doing, trying to knock out a project for work, relaxing on a beautiful sunny day, or on vacation with the family. Time constantly escapes us all, especially when we are more engaged and actually enjoying what we are doing. But the question we have to ask ourselves as a society do we understand how valuable time really is? Or how we can maximize our time to get the most out of each hour, day and our overall life? Because at the end of the day, we have no time, to waste time.