Every person has an inner longing for greatness and contribution. Our souls are not satisfied with mediocrity or failure. We desire to make a difference. It is only when we let the world beat this passion out of us that we settle down for less than what we can be.
When asked why he was willing to work hard to change his organization after 30 years of military service instead of retiring, a Colonel said that when his father died he made him promise not to waste his life like he did but to make a difference. The Colonel had been planning to retire and relax, but his father’s dying words inspired him to be a change catalyst.
We all must choose whether to have a good life or a great life, a good day or a great day.
Robert Frost wrote, “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Everyone chooses one of two roads in life: the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity or the other road to greatness and meaning. The path to mediocrity straightjackets human potential while greatness unleashes and realizes human potential. You either live out the cultural software of ego, indulgence, scarcity, comparison, competitiveness, and victimism or you rise above the negative cultural influences and choose to become the creative force of your life.
Adapted from The 8th Habit, by Stephen Covey.
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