Escape the rut and live your masterpiece life.
As I flew to Atlanta for a conference today I looked out of the window. I was inspired by what I saw and took a picture. The clouds that are usually high above were now beneath us. Suddenly, my perspective on life and it’s myriad issues was different.
I say to you this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live. You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand of some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.
You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand.
Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died when you refused to stand up for justice.
Change your thoughts and watch your actions change. Your changed actions will lead to changed outcomes. When your outcomes have changed so has your life. If you want to change your life, you must first change your thinking.
http://youtu.be/q1as4DNOy3s
I love this video and think that it is a great reminder for a Monday morning. The idea of prioritizing the big rocks sounds simple, but so many of us attempt to organize our lives around the myriad small things that occur daily. Make this week different. Decide what is important and prioritize those things. You will be surprised how quickly the small things of life fall into their proper place. Live one life.
Life is short. We should take the time to enjoy every day, just like the elephant in this CNN video. Click the link above and enjoy the day! Happy Friday.