The traits that make you strange are the gifts that make you special. I know you’re different, because you wouldn’t be here with me now if you didn’t feel you were different. You
probably don’t fit in with most conversations. I sure don’t fit in with most conversations. I don’t know a lot about most things that most people talk about because I don’t participate in the majority.
I don’t participate in the news. I don’t like to gossip. I like to encourage people versus diminish people. I like to be productive versus busy. I like to be creative versus complacent. I like to create value versus take from other people. I like to move into my present and future versus get stuck in the past. I like to be fast versus move too, too, too slow. I like to be a leader versus a victim. I like to believe in possibility versus get stuck in rational thinking because you know the instinct is so much more powerful than intellect.
All I’m suggesting to you is simply this: It’s the very things that make you different that make you authentic. If you don’t fit in, I just want to share with you, I’ve never fit in. The very nature of anyone who’s living a visionary life, and you are living a visionary life no matter what you’re doing. Let’s not get trapped in labels. “Oh, I’m just a coder, I’m just a receptionist at a restaurant or in an organization, I’m just a yoga teacher, I’m just a gym manager, I’m just a chef in a restaurant, I’m just a teacher.” People always say this when I interact with them on the social media, “I’m just an entrepreneur, I’m just a student, I’m just a mom, I’m just a dad.” No, you’re not “just,” you’re very special.
There are no extra people on the planet today. All I want to suggest to you is, you wouldn’t be here with me right now, you wouldn’t be with me on this leadership and personal mastery adventure that we’re on, you wouldn’t be interested in the rituals and routines of the A=players that I teach if you weren’t different. Most people, really, they watch too much
news, they talk too much gossip, they see the worst in people, it’s the mindset
of “can’t” versus the mentality of possibility and “can.” It just goes on and on, so you’re meant to be different because if you were ordinary like most people, you’d be getting ordinary results, and there was a longing inside of you for legendary. That’s why we’re having this time together in this episode. I just want to say to you and validate for you and encourage you, those things that other people might not get, those are your gifts.