“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Speechless…

Great scene!!!

“Don’t think you are, know you are”

“Stop trying to hit me and hit me”

Evangelist Robert H. Schuller describes four kinds of people:

• First come the cop-outs. These people set no goals and make no decisions.
• Second are the hold-outs. They have a beautiful dream, but uncertainty makes them afraid to respond to its challenge.
• The dropouts are third. They start to make their dream come true. but when the going gets tough, they quit.
• Finally, there are the all-outs. These brave souls know where they’re headed and do what it takes to get there.

In which category do you stand for and how will you change for belonging to the forth one?

(Is it that you can’t do it or perhaps you don’t want to do the work?)

When I was in college, I took a ton of advanced math courses, three or four of them, until one day I hit the wall. Too many dimensions, transformations and toroids for me to keep in my head. I was too stupid to do really hard math so I stopped.

Was it that I was too stupid, or did I merely decide that with my priorities, it wasn’t worth the work?

Isn’t it amazing that we’d rather call ourselves stupid than lazy? At least laziness is easy to fix.

People say that they are not gifted/talented/smart enough to play the trumpet/learn to code/write a book. That’s crazy. Sure, it may be that they don’t possess world-class talent, the sort of stuff that is one in a million. But too stupid to do something that millions and millions of people can do?

I’m not buying it. Call it as it is and live with it (or not). I’m just not willing to believe we’re as stupid as we pretend to be.

Commitment is the word here. If you are committed enough you can achieve anything!