You may feel like the best of you has passed. Like your greatest moments are behind you. But only because you staple your understanding of greatness to things that fade. What if you could believe once again that who you might become tomorrow is meant to overshadow everything you've been up until today? Greatness is a chosen absolute. It doesn't dwindle or wither, flicker or fail. It simply is or it is not. It is not an achievement or a single moment, a title or prize. But rather a constant state of being, and one you must choose. For if...
The hardest thing a man can do is the right thing... consistently. To wrangle his desires despite how he feels, to balance his impulses regardless where his current distraction is pulling him. To understand there will be no applause for it, very little gain in it and few who will stand beside him through it. Knowing he'll do it alone, over and over again, for a lifetime, all with the hope that somewhere along the way, doing the right thing might just be enough to help fix what’s broken in the world. There will be days he grows tired, days...
Iron sharpens iron, but rust decays both. If you want a glimpse at your future take a look at your friends, at who's sharpening you. Most people never quite get where they want to go in life, or become the fullness of who they were created to be because the path in front of them is thick with obstacles, and once they grow dull they're not around people who sharpen them back up.Never be afraid to reconstruct your circle for the sake of framing your future. All your potential depends on it. Be iron, be around iron, but also be...
All of us have a piece of us that is lost. Somewhere beneath all the wreckage that lies inside, we're looking for that compass to point us back towards purpose. But purpose begins when you stop trying to satisfy yourself, and start working to be satisfied WITH yourself. When you let go of simply chasing desires, and instead desire to be something worth chasing. The truth is; the best version of YOU is the only thing the world will ever need from you. Go discover it. Understand that He who made you weaved an intricate design all the way to...