Break free from indefinite preparation
Don`t simply ponder and plan to get ready to begin to live. Start now. Today. Don`t prepare indefinitely to take that course, to start that business, or to ask for that promotion. Do it now. If you`re scared to death, admit it. You`ll find that the admission alone will quit your heart and unwrinkle your forehead. Say to yourself: This is the time. This is the place. I am the one. I will act now!
You are unique. Develop your own style. No one has had the life experience you have had; no one has the contributions to make that you can make. So it`s not a question of being better than someone else, but being better than yourself.
Some people are outgoing, while others are introverts. Some are thinkers rather than doers. Some are leaders; some are followers. Some are ahead of their times; many are behind. But whatever category you are in, right now you can make that single deliberate move toward a life of significance.
We are all aware of true and challenging illustrations of hosts of people who have triumphantly overcome seemingly impossible handicaps and disabilities. An outstanding example is that of Helen Keller.
At the age of nineteen months, because of illness, Helen became totally blind and deaf and speechless. Needless to say, it would have seemed that she had no future.
But Helen was a highly spirited girl and was tremendously encouraged by the loving care of her mother. When Helen was seven, the beloved teacher, as Helen called her, came into her life. Anne Mansfield Sullivan was greatly responsible for unleashing in Helen Keller the great desire to express herself.
Through Anne`s help, Helen went on to graduate cum laude from Radcliffe College. Devoting her life to helping others deprived of sight and sound, she traveled all over the world on their behalf, giving lectures. She wrote several articles and books, and her contributions were such that Mark Twain said that the two most interesting characters of the nineteenth century were Napoleon and Helen Keller.
What about you? Whether your handicap is physical or emotional, today can be the day you begin to chip away that granite mountain of self-defeat. You can read books on how to do it. You can attend seminars on assertiveness training. You can discuss your plans for change with your friends and pray about it until the cows come home. But ultimately it`s up to you to take action. And to take action that is productive you must know who you are … and what you are.
It is my hope that today you will recognise that you are someone special, and that you will become all you were meant to be.
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