We all live in the land of opportunity – the great US of A, yet most, if not all of us don’t see the opportunities presented right in front of our faces everyday. The very few that do see these opportunities take action and capitalize on that opportunity to better their life and gain freedom. Those that don’t, well, keep trekking on with life wondering “What is my life purpose?”
A favorite quote of mine sums up what I’m trying to get across in a simple yet powerful statement:
“Many a false step was made by standing still” – Pattie Labelle
What does this mean? Potential. Everyone has the potential to change anything in their life, it’s a matter of taking the first step or taking action. As Nike would say “Just do it”.
I will have to make a bold statement, and say that everyone’s greater plan in life is to fulfill your true life purpose whatever it may be, and to make other people happy while enriching the lives of the people around you. Everyone has a beginning and end, and as a living individual it is inevitable that one day our time will come to an end as well. As Jake Sully put it in the movie Avatar:
“All energy is only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back”
Do you want to be remembered or forgotten? Do you want to be remembered as the guy with a lot of money or the guy who enriched other peoples lives and paid it forward to those who were deserving after you die. That is up to you. I know when I die, I don’t want one person at my funeral. I want to leave a legacy and be remembered as the guy who changed other people’s lives.
To be able to see the opportunity around you, you must change your way of thinking. It’s a way to break past all the limits people put on themselves, and start living life the way it should be lived. You can do anything you want in life, and move past all the rules people have implemented, which are only “fake” rules hindering people from moving on. You can achieve anything you want. That is a fact. No one is holding you back saying “You have to do this”. There are two choices to every decision. And ultimately that decision is yours to make.
People say there are multiple “realities”, or in simpler terms other possible life paths – multiple worlds with different outcomes and events based from the decisions you made in life. But the one world you’re in is where your conscious is in this exact present moment – the now. Don’t ponder or regret choices you’ve made in the past, it will only put a bigger burden on your life. Concentrate on moving forward in the present and making the right choices so your future can be enjoyable.
Now what if you had the chance to go back to other life state or “world” to take back a choice or capitalize on something you wish you could have (i.e., invest in Microsoft or Google), to become rich. Would you take that initial step and take the risk? Who knows, everyone is afraid of failure. And failure is the one thing which limits most people from taking that initial first step. Don’t be afraid of failure, take it as a learning opportunity to improve upon.
The only thing school teaches you is how to work and survive. I don’t want to be working the rest of my life just to survive. I want to work on something I love and live a life of freedom.
To do this, one of the main things I will emphasis on is get outside of your comfort zone. Every single day you should do or try to do this, because there is nothing great you’ll ever achieve while inside your comfort zone. Think of all the great things you’ve accomplished or achieved. It was because you were outside of your comfort zone. And guess what? When you accomplished these goals of yours it was probably a feeling 1000 times better than what you thought it would be.
In parting words, here is a quote from Oscar Wilde:
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination”
