Found your blog link from your guest post over on ProBlogger. I was reading this article, and it made me realize two things.

1) I live in mediocrity - feeling as though taking chances is wrong, walking the untraveled path is uncertain and stepping out of the daily drudge line is unacceptable. I wake up, go to work, go home, attend class, spend time with the family. Daily routine. Routine is good, but routine does not create anything exceptional. Exceptional lives are created by breaking routine, mundane and looking that fear in they eye and kicking it in the teeth.

2) Desires and wants often fall outside of the realm of needs, and needs are often overstated desires that we find to fill a short term void, rarely a long emptiness. Kind of like justifying a new car…do we really need the new car? Or do we justify it with dislikes and remorse over the car we already have? These overstated needs often keep us from truly following our dreams, which should be our desires and wants in life. The places we see when we close our eyes and forget the world exists for 10 minutes.

My challenge?

To identify the dreams, desires and wants in my life and to not let any of them get disguised as a need, but as an attainable goal that should not be out of my reach. To carry the desire to plan these goals that realize the dreams, desires and wants, to plan accordingly to attain them and to look the average in the eye and kick it’s teeth in.

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