“When I believe in something, I fight like hell for it.” – Steve McQueen

If you want to get anywhere closer to your dreams or passions, you are going to have to fight for it. You will have to fight controls, people and your own doubts and fears. It will be a constant battle that you will weigh the worth of inside your own mind. You will be like Atlas, beaten and bloody and feel as if the world is upon your shoulders. Following your passion is probably the hardest thing you will ever do in your entire life. You will face many trials and failures before you reach your goal. You will struggle. You will have others make fun of you instead of give you support. I will not lie to you. It will suck and isn’t for the feint of heart. But, if you want to get to the top you are going to have to fight like hell and continue to fight like hell for it. You will have to keep swinging, otherwise you won’t stay there long. You must remember that there are thousands who want the same position as you and many will do what it takes to obtain it. Therefore you will NEVER be able to let up. Not even for an instance. Innovation will run you over.

However, if you fight for your passion you get rewards beyond measure. It will be worth more than gold could ever buy. You get to satisfy that hunger inside of you. You will watch as your dreams become much more than mere fantasy. Your wildest desires become reality.

Fight Like Hell.

How do you fight for your passion?

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I wonder how many of us downplay our talents for fear of looking cocky or conceited. We are taught that modest is a virtue. In my opinion, modesty is a sad virtue and keeps people held down. I believe it robs us of our true potential. Everyone has some talent about them. Embrace it. Don’t ever downplay your talent to fit in with those around you. If you have a talent, blow the freaking doors off it. Show the world what you are made of. It is what make you, YOU. It’s what is special about you. Why should you hide what makes you great? Why hide the things that make you stand out? By downplaying your genius you are doing yourself a disservice. If you allow yourself to do less than you could you will not improve, you will stay the same or get worse.

I’m not saying you should run around being a one upper type boasting that you think you are better than everyone. But I do believe you should be proud of your talent and genius. Don’t hide it or downplay it in order to fit in.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I Am The Greatest.

-Muhammad Ali

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“If you need more than a microphone and a stage you are a punk.” -Frank Sinatra

This quote got me thinking, why have they embraced mediocrity in music? Shouldn’t we applaud the real talent? I think that what make musicians stand out is the fact that they can do something that not everyone else can. I have a friend Tiffany that only needs her own voice with a crowd to listen to her and she can blow the socks off what is out there right now. She is an incredible singer (one day I’ll get a video of her to post for you all).

What happened to the real talent out there in the music world? Why aren’t the talented the ones that are highlighted? What happened to musicians that could actually play an instrument and singers who could actually sing? Anyone can come and throw down lyrics and use autotune to make it sound better. There is nothing great about that though. There is no special talent there that makes them different. So, why do we support it?

Here is a video of Andy McKee and extremely talented musician. All he needs is his guitar.

Real talent is what lasts forever. These autotuned songs may be what is popular now, but I doubt they will ever become timeless. What are your thoughts?

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“All your life, you have heard yourself denounced, not for your faults, but for your greatest virtues. You have been hated, not for your mistakes, but for your achievements. You have been scorned for all those qualities of character which are your highest pride. You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgment and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been called antisocial for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads. You have been called ruthless for the strength and self-discipline of your drive to your purpose. You have been called greedy for the magnificence of your power to create wealth. You, who’ve expanded an inconceivable flow of energy, have been called a parasite. You, who’ve created abundance where there had been nothing but wastelands and helpless, starving men before you, have been called a robber. You, who’ve kept them all alive, have been called an exploiter. You, the purest and more moral man among them, have been sneered at as a ‘vulgar materialist.’ Have you stopped to ask them: by what right? – by what code? – by what standard? ” – A. R.

I am so sick of seeing the world of business demonized. It is everywhere out there. The constant punishment of our world’s greatest achievers. It’s on magazine covers and books, across newspaper headlines and reflected in hollywood. It’s disheartening.

Today I saw these words on Hugh Macleod’s Blog: Remember Who You Are. Those words stayed with me.

Remember Who You Are.

I want to remind you entrepreneurs who you are. We live in world today that does not appreciate us despite our great and important work. Instead of being praised for the value we bring, they choose to demonize and label us. Remember: you shouldn’t feel guilty for your strength. You should be proud of your creations and the value you bring to our world. You have done what many could not. Those that demonize us do so because they cannot accomplish what we can. They do not have our great strength so they attempt to save face by demonization. What you are doing is extremely worthwhile. It is people like you that move and push our world forward, not them. We may never get a thank you from them for providing them with great products, services and jobs. Its alright becuase we don’t need it. We don’t need their approval, we only need our own. Remember, it is you who is making a difference in our world. No matter what they say about us, just remember who you are and that you are doing great work.

“Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.” – Jean Sibelius

Remember Who You Are.

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A lady once hired a plumber to come and fix her sink. He walked right up to it and banged the pipe and turned a knob until the clog was fixed. He promptly handed the lady a bill after about 2 minutes of work. “$105! Why all you did was bang the pipe and turn a knob! I want a breakdown of why this is so expensive.” The lady exclaimed angrily. The plumber smiled and said, “It’s $5 for banging the pipe and turning the knob. It’s $100 for knowing where to bang.”

I think in business sometimes we forget the value of our genius. What I mean by this is that you are an expert in your field. You obtain knowledge that others lack. You have been to the seminars, bought the books and spent the countless hours honing your skills. Through trial and error you have figured it out. That knowledge is years in the making and you spent your time and money to obtain it.

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

You shouldn’t cheapen that knowledge by losing sight at it’s worth. You were the one who spent years learning. You faced trials and hardships to get there. Your experience is extremely valuable to someone who needs to get where you already are or know what you know. I think sometimes we allow others to pick and prod our genius out of us. We allow them to take from us what we have spent years learning. LET ME BE CLEAR: I am not saying we shouldn’t help others get where they are trying to go. I am a firm believer that if you help enough people get what they want, then you will eventually get what you want. I believe professionals should exchange ideas and help one another. I just want you to be aware and guard your genius. I want you to realize the value behind your knowledge when others don’t respect what you went through to obtain it.

Don’t cheapen your genius.

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This is me as batman as a kid! Ha.

I asked myself: what happened to our imaginations? When we were kids you could give us a ruler and we could pretend we were pirates. Somewhere along the way we stopped and were crushed with a big fat dose of reality. Life happened. We get kids to feed. Jobs to work.

No more lands to conquer. No adversaries to fight. What happened to us? When did we lose the ability to imagine? Our power to visualize something not there? As we grow older our imaginations leave us. They get stuffed away in a closet in the backs of our minds and replaced with life. We forget how to play and create great new lands out of thin air. I wonder if this is why so few start businesses and go out on a limb in pursuit for their dreams. Perhaps they have forgotten how to imagine great distant lands in their minds. Obviously if we saw a grown man buzzing around pretending to fight pirates we would put him in a straight jacket. Quickly.

But what about the ability to imagine an idea or dream up a better world? Perhaps our loss of imagination keeps us from not seeing what isn’t there. Imagination is what lead to every great innovation, creation and revolution that was ever created in history. Our leaders had to see a better world through imagination. If you want to make a difference, you have to fight for your imagination. Bring it back. Let out that kid in you and dream up something incredible.

What are your thoughts?

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I saw something amazing today. It was an old couple holding hands. A rare find today. There was something there though, which I couldn’t help but notice. The man looked like he still had the hots for her. And her, she looked like she was the happiest woman on the planet. They had this look in their eyes that was just incredible to see. Passion. Love. It made me smile. Driving home, I thought to myself, wow. Why don’t more people find relationships like that? I think in today’s world, people settle for a lot less. We settle for security. We stay in relationships when we have better prospects that could make us happier. We don’t leave a job when we hate it. We never start that business or act on our great ideas or opportunity.

Why choose to settle for something you don’t really want in the first place? At what point do we let go and justify something less than our true desires? It got me wondering, why is it that people don’t believe that they can have the best that there is in the world?

We all have a choice. We can accept the status quo or be the ones to set the bar where we truly want. Every time we settle for less a piece of ourselves die with it. Our true desires are not fulfilled. You may learn to accept where you are, but inside you will always have a longing for more and it will slowly eat away at your soul until you act on it.

Maximum security equals minimum experience. – Dan K.

The most secure place on the planet is a prison cell, but the problem is that it is just that, a prison. You are behind bars, held back and aren’t free to reach your true desires. You won’t find that person that is truly right for you, you’ll settle for someone that doesn’t make you feel fully alive. You won’t start that business idea you had, and it will sit lonely locked away in your mind’s attic collecting dust. If our history’s great leaders had settled, would anything great ever been accomplished?

If you really want to be happy you can’t settle for less. Another great quote: “learn to say no to the good to allow room for the great.” Learn to not accept mediocrity and shoot for great heights. Don’t settle. Follow your heart.

It is out there; you just have to have enough patience to find it.

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I am a firm believer that if you want to have a future, you must let go of the past.

The past is a double edged sword. It can be a great thing and a terrible thing. In some senses, the past can give you experiences that can keep you from danger in the future. I’m not saying you should forget those. Learn from them. However, the past can also keep you from living a full happy life as well. Have you ever dealt with someone who has had a terrible unhealthy relationship? The past can take control of their life and hurt all of their future relationships by making people pay for other’s mistakes. We can be so worried about not letting the things that happened before, happen again, that we forget to live the life we have right now in front of us. Before we know it, we can look up and it’s over. Don’t be that person that one day realizes they have wasted years of their life due to the past having reign over them. It can be helpful, but it can also suck the life inside out of you.

Don’t let the past keep you from having a future. It’s your choice if you give the past power over you. Yours and yours alone. You have the choice to build yourself up again and move on, or let it keep control over you. You can let the circumstances shape you or you can do the shaping.

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Is just getting by living a real fulfilled life? I’m not saying that everyone should go out and build a massive company or do some incredible feat. Greatness can be defined in many ways. I don’t necessarily mean money either. Everyone should however have more of a purpose than to get to the next day. We shouldn’t be living for the weekend. We should work to find our why in life. Our purpose for what we are supposed to do on this planet. Have you ever asked yourself what your why is?

When you were little you had such grandiose dreams of great aspirations. We all wanted to be astronauts and were told to shoot for the stars. We thought we could do or become anything. Somehow along the way, many of us settled for mediocrity. We lost our why and haven’t acknowledged it since. We lost our passion and we settled when we could have soared.

What happened to those dreams of greatness? What happened to our why? What your life is about? What impact do you want to have on our world? How will your life be remembered by those around you? What would they say about your life after you are gone?

Find your why again. Don’t live your life asleep. You don’t want to wake up one day and realize you lost it entirely.

You have a masterpiece inside you. One unlike anything that has ever been created, or ever will be. And remember: If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you. – Gordon Mackenzie

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