Hope helps perseverance endure.
Gratitude helps reduce the swell of pride.
Steadiness helps keep you in the race.
Vision helps shape your future.
Awareness helps accelerate serendipity.
Commitment helps fight the urge to surrender.
Attitude helps the flavor of your response(s).
Priorities help ensure progress.
Use and pursue these helpers. They’re here to help.
Conventional wisdom is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field.
But it has a hard time predicting what really will unfold.
It didn’t plan on Wichita State being in the Final Four.
It never saw the potential for a billion Facebook users.
And it has a hard time defining and wrapping its hands around art, beauty, experience, fulfillment, and meaning.
So why buy into it?
Why pursue it at the cost of losing everything you are actually after?
Metaphorically, all of us want a green jacket in something. But here’s the deal – all of the green jacket owners you have seen or know have taken very unconventional paths to get there.
Shape your shots and release yourself from the crutch of conventional thinking.
You are in the universe that holds the Milky Way that holds our solar system that holds Earth that holds the atmosphere that holds the spot that holds you where you are sitting right now.
Think about that.
It’s as if each step backwards from the spot where you are at to the atmosphere you are in to Earth to the solar system to the Milky Way to the universe is begging you to come join in its jazz.
You matter. This thing counts. There are no do-overs.
The begging universe screams – shine. Please respond with I do.
Do with that what you need to do.
#LTMP
You are a musician.
The music your life is capable is astounding.
It’s a choice.
It’s a choice worth making.
We need you, your conscience, your passions, your talents, and your gifts. Collectively, they are your music and your dent in the world.
If no one has ever told you anything like this, print this out and put it in your pocket.
#LTMP
The world you will fabricate on the outside will be a reflection of what’s already inside of you.
The most glorious word of the last sentence is already…
What’s already inside of you will create what’s outside of you.
However, most will look outside to complete what is inside. There’s not a another person, book, quote, or belief that is going to get you to your dreams.
Hear this…you are completely
capable,
worthy,
and already wired with the what you need to succeed.
Success is taking the voice that is already inside of us outside.
Ashton.Gustafson 
