Do you want to be a remarkable person?
Contrary to popular and incorrect “birthright thinking”, remarkable is well within your reach. You do not have to be born with a castle in the family! Small steps can make a huge impact on the trajectory of your life.
How much better would your life be, how remarkable would you be…
1 – if you decided to life a life of pure optimism and gave up all complaining – really – day in and day out?
2 – if you decided to really “go for it”, to jump in with both feet, take prudent risks, and be all you can be?
3 – if you completely gave up making excuses to others and inside your own head?
4 – if you simply did everything you say you will do?
5 – if you decided to live in the present, never worrying about tomorrow
or thinking about past events?
6 – if you decided to do everything with 100% focus and effort –
in other words, your absolute best?
7 – if you started to ask good questions, then really listen and remember what people said,
instead of talking about your own stuff most of the time and thinking about what you will say next?
8 – if you sincerely looked for and found “what’s special” in every person you meet?
9 – if you planned one important thing to do each morning – by important I mean that it contributes to long-term progress in your life – and did it before nightfall each day?
10 – if you never told a lie from this day forward?
11 – if you limited your passive, time-wasting TV watching to one hour a day or less?
12 – if decided to not worry about what other people think or what they say about you?
13 – if you stopped for just 15 minutes each day, in peace and quiet, to think, to plan, to write down the things you are thankful for, to say a prayer or two?
Pick any one. Would you be better off? Pick any six. Would you be MUCH better off? Pick the entire baker’s dozen. Would you become truly remarkable?
How long would it take to make all of them indelible habits? Less than one year, right? Maybe a year and a half? The opportunity to become a remarkable person in one to two years seems great to me.
Most people think of “remarkable” people in flawed ways – remarkably famous, remarkably rich, remarkably intelligent, remarkably connected, remarkably talented, remarkably beautiful – yet all of these qualities have to do with God given characteristics, family birthright, and a healthy dose of luck – three things we cannot choose ourselves. So most people decide that they will be not remarkable, and strangly admire those few that fit in the categories above.
Yet, if you did just these thirteen small steps, do you agree that “remarkable” is quite accessible to anyone that wants to be?
Be Remarkable! It is your choice.
I.M. Optimism Man
