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. When we’re little kids, we’re 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 advancethrough life, we get hurt and the people around us tell us how to think, and they suggest to us if we livethis way we will live soaring lives, and over time we experience a brainwashing of sorts and a heartwashing, and we close ourselves down and we start to steadily and incrementally, we contract, 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.
