Commitment

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." - Stephen King, American novelist

Many people believe that talent is the only thing you need to have, to be successful in life. Many tend to measure a person's ability by the marks he/she scored in academics. But, do all the top scorers, though talented, really succeed in life? Where will they be after 10 years from now? The answer for the above questions is most likely to be not outstanding.

This is just because talent alone cannot assure success. Many of these top scorers think that they are talented and can easily get any job that they wish - but the fact is talent can make you eligible for a job, but not successful in life.

It's not talent, you need to have commitment to succeed in life
Though talent gets you further, it is commitment that leads to success. Commitment towards your learning or towards your work, will help you grow in your career, while talent at the most, can help you in acquiring a job.

If you flip through history, you will find people who were successful, had commitment to their goals, than just their talent.
Hence, it is commitment, not just talent, that will lead you to success and to achieve your goals in life.

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek." - Mario Andretti

Remember: Talent gets you further, it is commitment that leads to success.

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Don't Play Safe!

When you look at your life, do you find yourself taking chances or playing life safe? Do you take calculated risks or do you take the path that appears the easiest? Neither one is good or bad, however, I would submit to you that playing life safe results in a more mundane and less fun life.

When we look at life, what is there to see? Each of us has the opportunity each morning when we roll out of bed to choose what we would like to do for that day. Most of us choose to go to work as we have obligations to meet and we like to be able to eat on a daily basis and keep a roof over our heads. That however, is not a requirement, it is a choice.

Each day we have the wonderful opportunity ahead of us to create a masterpiece. After all, we are all masterpieces created for a Purpose.

What are you doing each day with your opportunity? When you roll out of bed, you start taking risks. It may not seem that way to you, only because you have performed so many of these same tasks so many times that risk of failure is minute. We risk hitting our toes, or falling down or burning ourselves with a hot drink in the morning. We risk getting involved in an accident on the way to work in the morning. Heaven only knows what risks are being taken at work. And the list goes on.

Everything you do in a day has an element of risk. The question I have for you is what kind of risks are you taking? Are you taking risks that will move you forward in life towards your Purpose and your deepest desires in your heart? Or, are you taking small risks that don't seem like risks to you that keep you in your current place?

Are you content with where you are in your life? If you are, great, and be encouraged to continue on your way. If, however, you are not content, totally unhappy, and want to make more out of your life, you want to achieve Your Purpose in life, then be encouraged to take a different path in life. Choose to take calculated risks.

These are risks that you have looked at, weighed the benefits and disadvantages and know what the outcome could bring if you win and are willing to live with the results if you loose.

If you are willing to step out into life, stop playing safe and really choose to life a live of significance and Purpose, then let's do this. Let us choose to engage life.

What do you choose to do in your life?

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Roses And Thorns

There's no crazy without brilliant; no wisdom without ignorance; no love without hate; and no courage without fear.

Yet we hope to be one without the other - a rose without a thorn. We forget our 'agreement' - to fully experience the light and the dark; to BE human.

We can't own our gifts without also owning our pitiful selves and our stupidity; without realizing that our mistakes are what we came here for. They're our greatest moments of awakening.

There's no north without south; no found without lost; no laughter without tears; and no sunrise without sunset.

We come here to feel and express it all; to move through the crazy and find the wisdom; to move through hell and find heaven. Only then can we clearly choose light over dark; love over hate; and wisdom over fear. This is our mission here in the dense realm.

Pretending to be perfect - all good, brilliant, and enlightened is our greatest human flaw. Perfection is our impossible dream here on Planet Earth. How we waste time longing for it, and seeking it in others.

When our beloveds' weaknesses are fully revealed, we stone them, hate them - just as we hate ourselves, for not being perfect, for being ONLY human. We're missing the point of being human; and hurting others with our ignorance.

How eager we are to see another's flaws - to forget that we hold the same flaws in our hands, are made from the same fabric, have spoken the same words, and made the same mistakes. To realize our divine nature is to know that we are all made of this same imperfect fabric.

Create your beautiful life. Sew perfection into every moment. But embrace the defects hidden in your cloth; know that under the surface, your beautiful life is woven with the same anxieties, fears, hatreds, and mistakes as your greatest enemy. Then you'll realize why there's nothing ever to forgive.

You'll offer a hand to the one who hurt you most; you'll help them see their gifts. You'll help them be who they came here to be. Doing this will save you.

The moment you see that your greatest shame, your greatest pain, is also your greatest gift - you'll understand why you're here and who you are.

Love your pain and fear - embrace your darkness. It will lead you to your gifts, your courage and your divinity; it will open your heart. Love the entire story of your imperfect life, especially the mistakes and ugly self-doubt.

Release your need for perfection in anyone or anything; love the rose along with its thorns. These are the same thorns that live in your heart -alongside the gift of your boundless love.

Become the person who loves the thorn and the gift in everyone - including yourself. Know that one can't exist without the other. Doing this will heal you.

And it will save the life of everyone you meet.

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