Bold Imagination

Three (VERY) big picture questions for you. Consider taking a few uninterrupted moments to seriously consider the implications:

1) If I were not limited by any parameters – age, education, experience, negative self-perceptions…anything – what would I want to accomplish in this life?

2) What would I be willing to attempt if I truly didn’t care what other people thought?

3) What bold accomplishment would I look back on five years from now and be exceedingly glad that I had achieved?

We spend so little time on the big things of life. We get caught up in the tasks and the minutia and the administravia, and the next thing you know we are living the John Lennon saying: “Life is what happens while you’re making other plans.”

The fact is that you are a unique creation, endowed by God with unique gifts to be used in spectacular ways.

Be Bold, my friends – you can change the world!

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt