When we were little kids, we were born into genius, but too often, we resign ourselves to mediocrity. We’re little kids. We want to do amazing things with our lives. We are quite intimate with our gifts and our talents. We are okay and comfortable in our own skin. We walk our own walk. We talk our own talk. We trust our instincts. But then as we advance through life, we get hurt. And the people around us tell us how to think. And they suggest to us, if we live this way, we will live soaring lives. And over time, we experience a brainwashing of sorts and a heart washing, and we close ourselves down and we start to steadily and incrementally, we contract and we play small and we restrict ourselves and it becomes the great forgetting. We forget who we truly are. And we wonder why we don’t feel joyful. And there’s a lack of soulfulness in our lives and we don’t feel alive. And it’s because we have betrayed ourselves. Stop giving away your power to external things, because that’s what victims do. And every single time you refuse to make an excuse or offer a complaint and you take your power back from a fear or something maybe you’ve been procrastinating on, you become more powerful. And if every single day you practice micro bravery and you do uncomfortable things and you vote for difficult projects, you steadily become the hero that you’re meant to be.
