A mighty vision releases massive talent. As a child, you had a natural sparkle in your eye. You never want to lose that sparkle. You were hardwired to dream bold, juicy, ingenious, and inspiring dreams. But as you grew, that audacity was smothered deep within you. You were told to be sensible and practical and responsible. What a word, responsible.
Because you were a little kid and you trusted the adults around you to teach you how the world work, you bought into their fears, without realizing they were just teaching you the fearful thinking they themselves had been raised with. You stopped tending to your dreams. You lost private access to your power. You began to play small, and the sparkle within your eyes went dim. The main value of the past is what it’s made of you in the present, and today is the ideal day to start your best life. Six months from now, my guess is that you’ll have wished you began today.
So why wait? Let go of any form of average. Lift up your expectations and your standards and
get seriously unreasonable with yourself and your dreams. Because here’s the real key I’m trying to suggest to you, the bigger your dream, the more talent gets released from within you as you walk towards it. I’m going to repeat that again because it’s so important. The bigger your dream, the more talent gets released from within you.
The problem is most people don’t have the confidence and self-belief to set an audacious vision that awakens the greatness that sleeps within them. You want to be a game-changer? You need to have these audacious, scary goals that almost frighten you when you look at them written on the printed page.
But once you that goal and you 20X your life and you say, “I feel scared, but I need to do this,”
whether it’s being a better baker, a better taxi driver, a better mother or father, starting something like a nonprofit in your field, being the best entrepreneur in your community, being an awesome teacher, being a great marathoner. I don’t know what your dream is deep in
your heart, but you need to get it done. If you don’t write it down and then start the process of executing around it, not next month, not next year, but today, and then start the process.