Ask yourself, how can I make my return to originality? Because too many of us, without even knowing it, have become card-carrying members of the cult of average. Find your originality again, find your authenticity, talk your talk, live your values. Do your dreams. Remember your hidden talents, not the hidden talents of your neighbor, or the person in the office next to you. Be true to yourself because, as Oscar Wild said, “Everyone else is taken.”
Whatever happened to people’s energy? Whatever happened to people’s audacity? I mean, the great high wire walker Papa Wallenda said it well, he said, “Life is lived out on the wire. The rest is just waiting.” I believe that the greatest risk is riskless living, and too many of us have dimmed down our light. We live the best years of our lives playing small because we’re avoiding the things that frighten us, and my encouragement today is for you to start being audacious. Audacious in the work that you do, audacious in the love that you give, audacious in what you expect of yourself.
And the starting point is really, do the things that terrify you, because fear is nothing more than bravery training. The things that you’re frightened to do are the things that you need to do, because they carry your greatest growth.