The only people who can change the world are people who want to.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
The core thing would be just do something awesome. Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original.
A lot of things are evolutionary, and it is easy to get caught up in what the geek subculture thinks. There’s lots of valuable businesses that can be built there, but I think that is where a lot of people tend to spin their wheels, and I’ve been caught up there before. When I’ve had more successful things, I’ve thought, ‘Back to basics. What do I want? What do I want to see in the world?’ And create that.
What’s success? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
In the pursuit of your dream, are you challenging yourself to do things you’ve never done?
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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This upcoming year, you will choose to either more enthusiastically pursue the dream that is your destiny or you will suffocate your wants and desires. What’ll it be?
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The fulfillment of your dream lies on the other side of the risk you know you should take! Risk again in 2010!
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No one is going to make your dreams come true for you. Like the ol’ adage goes, “If it’s to be…it’s up to me!”
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
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Disowned Desire
The hope is to stay in the background away from the fire, and wait for someone or something to come along and grant us immunity from these difficulties and sacrifices, someone to offer reassurance, saying perhaps, “Take the safe way, not the way of passion and creativity, as the path to your destiny, the life you desire. Follow it and you will never be touched…” [But] we cannot neglect our inner fire without damaging ourselves in the process.
Excerpt from: David Whyte, The Heart Aroused via John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things that we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
