Someday I’d like to be able to write with the clarity, power and effectiveness of Seth Godin. In the mean time, I’m content to point you to his posts, like this one, and quote from him directly:
“The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until
you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is
true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in
search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is
to waste it all.”
Please don’t waste it all. And don’t think it, or you, doesn’t matter. It does. You do.
We have an awkward relationship with self centered-ness. And while I can agree a self-absorbed and uncaring person cannot live a successful life, a completely self-less one cannot either. Self-less people cannot contribute, add too, increase or build up. And this is a world in desperate need of contributions, additions, increases and buildings – real and imagined.
This is what you’re here for. We need you to be full and to be trying, failing, trying, failing and trying so we can be changed. It’s not about you changing it or not either, the question is whether or not something will be changed. Why? Because you’re the only one that can contribute, add to, increase or build the way you do.
“To do anything else is
to waste it all.”
Amen my friend.
