Atrophy: A wasting away or diminution. Muscle atrophy is a decrease in muscle mass, often due to extended immobility.
Planes diminish in the hanger.
Ships peter out in the harbor.
Use what you’ve got. Fly. Sail.
Never lose your sense of wonderment.
Never trade great for good enough.
Never overlook the good.
Never look around the bad.
Never pass on the chance to make someone’s day.
Hard as it may be, never fail to finish that thought, that dream, that idea, or that song.
Nevermind is the #1 cause of all dream deaths.
If there is a social badge we’ve adopted in nearly every circle, it’s the badge of busy-ness.
We tell our wives how busy we are. We tell our church group. We tell our confidants. We tell strangers at cocktail parties.
Newsflash – this is how it should be. We should all be doing, creating, learning, serving, and finding. Efficiently.
The problem arrives when we flash our badge of busy-ness to create to the illusion we’re being efficient.
Busy lives are dim.
Efficient lives shine.
Trading busy-ness for efficiency is going to require trading what you like to do for what you should be doing.
Make the trade.
Efficiency gets us closer to fulfillment. Fulfillment of goals and fulfilment of dreams. I think that’s what we’re all after…at least I am.
There is a difference between being a looky loo and one who actually sees what’s happening or the meaning behind something.
Looking is for the passerby’s. Seeing always beckons a response.
Looking leaves us empty-handed. Seeing finds us rich in thought.
See what I mean? >; Look at me.
Followers look for someone to follow. Leaders see the way.
Stop and look at art, or a flower, or a sunset, or a child today. Now that you’ve looked, think about what you’ve just seen.
In that same mindset look to your world.
Now tell us what you see.
Better yet, show us.
There is a bridge between your dream and your reality.
Think of those you classify as a hero, mentor, or leader. They live on these bridges. They are never content on this side of the ravine.
Ask them how they got to where they are and they always go back to their stories of finding, building, and sometimes even stumbling onto these bridges.
There is a bridge to wisdom. There is a bridge to love. There is a bridge to wealth. There is a bridge to creativity. There is a bridge to peace. There is a bridge to fulfilment.
Just know that what got you here won’t get you there. You’re going to need another bridge.
Dreaming is the easy part, but reality will require a bridge.
And if you can’t find a bridge, please find a way to build one.
The world needs you on the other side of the ravine.
Ashton.Gustafson 