Sunday, 8 November 2015
You! Just Do It!
Just do it!! Article on YOU
Close your eyes, and imagine this for a moment.
You are 86 years old on your porch on a rocking chair on a warm sunny morning, looking back on your life.
Now let me tell you, studies show that the biggest regret from elderly people on their deathbed is not what they did, but it's what they 'didn't' do.
The risks they 'never' took. The time they never spent enough, with loved ones, etc.
How sad would it be to get to the end of your life and realized you never truely lived.
This is 'your' life, nobody else's.
No matter how much your society, your parents, your friends want you to live, or the way they want you to live.. YOU RUN THE SHOW. You and only you are in charge!
When you shut your eyes and go to sleep at night, the entire world ceases to exist, and when you wake up it's born again. Just for you. As it says; Bshvil Lee Nivra Haolam! The day is 'yours'! The world is at your feet. Hashem created you and only one version of You.
This is your life, you're in control, you do what feels right in 'your' heart.
Now go back to the rocking chair and think what would your future say about the ideas you never created, the books you never wrote, the words you never spoke, the friends you never made, the people you were hesitant about introducing yiddishkiet to them, the time you could've spent with your loved ones instead of your cell phone!
But I get it, you want it easy.
But if greatness was easy you would see a lot of successful people and lot of great people.
Astronauts, professional athletes or superheroes, but you dont.
You'll see a lot of people with big mouths making excuses on facebook, trying to get likes but they dont even like themselves.
See, the difference between winners and losers is persistence. Winners don't talk too much, they are action oriented!
My teacher told me about the bamboo tree.
After planting the seed it takes five years for it to break through the ground.
That's five whole years of attention, care and water everyday.
If you miss a day it dies right there, but once it breaks through the ground, after those five years, within five weeks it grows 90ft. tall
So your journey isn't gonna be easy, it's gonna take time.
And when you have a dream, people are gonna laugh because they won't see what 'you' see.
They'll say what is that idiot doing watering the ground?
They aren't capable of seeing the plant that's planted inside of you, they have sight but no vision, only 'you'
have the vision.
So let them laugh, they will say be real, be realistic, but realism is often an excuse for pessimisms and you can't let other people's opinion define your reality.
So let them laugh.
But I guarantee, you won't find one successfull person in history that people didn't laugh at.
Stop worrying about your reputation, because your reputation let's people think about you, your characters who you are.
Make the commitment whole heartedly. Stop thinking, and JUST DO IT.
Do it for you, the real 'you', because ultimately YOU deserve it!
You don't get to do-over your life.
So Live your DREAMS.
You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.
Toby Lieder
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