Friday, October 2, 2015

Don't Lose A Diamond While Chasing Glitter

By Evan Sanders


It took me a long time to truly realize the seriousness of the concept of quality over quantity.

Maybe it's the world we have grown up in or something else completely, but there seems to be a compelling urge for people to get infatuated with going for quantity vs. quality. Who knows why this really is, but the results are known. When you end up going for quantity over quality, your life cheapens completely and you are surrounded by a whole bunch of stuff that doesn't really have much value to it.

Life has an interesting way of only opening doors and opportunities to us when we expand past our current boundaries. When we look to bring the best out in ourselves, these doors open to us because we are seeing and experiencing life in ways we haven't before. But this only happens when we decided to take on a challenge that will make us grow.

Most people become disappointed with their lives because at some point they saw another way of living and never really gave themselves the opportunities to live in that type of world.

You need to be willing to make sacrifices for your own greater good.

You must be willing to put your name next to a goal and keep yourself accountable to it.

And here's the final touch, you have to be willing to constantly raise the bar on yourself and who you are in order to achieve something that you've never achieved before.

When you search for happiness, you will never find it. Happiness is a fleeting emotion just like any other emotion in the book. However, if you come to a place of gratitude for what you have now and appreciation for the opportunity you have to build something new in the future, then happiness will find you.

There's so much out there about being happy, but I think anything, particularly when it's involved around an emotion, when attempted at "too hard" can basically end up being a disaster or completely inauthentic. I suspect, ultimately, making incremental changes to yourself and letting contentment find you because you're being the best version of yourself will deliver you more joy in the long run.

The bedrock of your greatest self will be built on sacrifice. Are you really willing to do the things today that others do not do? Are you willing to do the things that you know you are really capable of but are very tough? It is hard to look yourself in the face often and say, "I'm going to compete with my potential today."

Sacrifices will be the foundation your new life is built upon.

Be your own hero today.




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