Die Eye Cyclops Last Stand

“When you work plainly for yourself or for your own personal gain your mind will seldom rise above the limitations of the unexploited personal life; but when you are inspired by numerous great purpose, numerous extraordinary project, all your thoughts break bounds; your mind transcends limitations; your cognizance elaborates in each direction; and you find yourself in a new world, a great world, a terrifi world; dormant powers, faculties and natural abilities and qualities become alive, and you discover yourself to be a larger man by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

~ Christian D. Larson, Business Psychology, 1912

“Do you have any last words?” the Bishop whispered in his ear. “Just compensate homage to the king, and we may make this swift.” He continued.

Faces drawn, his countrymen stand actionless, blended amid the masses and say silent prayers for William, while the torture continues.

With no probability of mercy and with not one thing to lose, he throws back his head and shouts “Freedom”!

The executioner drops the axe and ends the life of William Wallace.

Every time I watch the movie Braveheart, that scene haunts me for days after.

But the line that in truth gets me, and convicts me along with him is when he is offered poison to numb his senses as he prepares to die. He looks the princess of Wales in the eyes and says “No, I need my wits regarding me.”

“But you’re going to die” she says.

And he replies “Every man dies, but not each man lives.”

Every man dies…

But not each man lives.

Wow.

No passion, no purpose, no vision. Nothing in truth stimulates us except getting off work early and rushing home to watch television and head to bed dreading the thoughts of doing it all over again tomorrow. We spend more time and creativeness in getting out of work and being invisible than we do seeking out something indispensable to do with our lives. We have been tried in the inquisition of intent and have been found sorely lacking.

And it’s our fault.

Yes, yes I know there are numerous trend breakers who actively seek out a larger intent and throw themselves in it heart and soul, but lately, it seems, these persons are burning out, evaporating into the atmosphere by the immensity of their passions. And we, the uninvolved, concede them to carry our responsibilities, secure in the psychological result of perception learning and reasoning that we may hide another day.

We’ve got it all wrong. Many people make New Year’s resolutions only to find that a month later they have retreated into the obscurity of their ease zones and have gone back to the way they were. They stand with pride and announce “this year will be different!”, and before they have a chance to sit down, they are already thinking “what am I going to do now?”

What we must learn to do is to announce “New Day’s resolutions” and make a stand that each day will have in it a heap of form of growth, a great deal of sort of advance to the outer confines of the ease zone: Some intention that is more spectacular than us.

To do less is to die to our potential.

I recognise all with regards to dying to potential and retreating to safety inside a ease zone. It’s been a breathtakingly new pattern for me lately. “Taking action” seems to have been substituted with “let an individual else do it”, and I seemed content to coast through life: no commitments, no action but lots of excuses.

I’m too busy… I’ll do it when I … I don’t know how… It’s too hard… I’ve never done it before… It’s the economy… I’m afraid…

…and people are losing faith in me, and I in myself.

Enough!

Lately, my level of discontent with my life has been growing every day until it has now become an obsession. The outstanding thing that I want to do is to be an encourager of others. I want to arouse possiblenesses in others so they too may become what they dream of becoming. I crave the courage to shout versus the machine of routine, to be heard as a voice that speaks louder than inaction and stand taller than fear. I want to be a beacon of boldness that shines light on potential and calls persons to come and be what they will have to be, guiding them through the minefield of excuses.

I want to be a modern day William Wallace. I want a more prominent intention that will challenge my courage and give hope or courage to my enthusiasms. I want to have the peace of mind knowing that I am making a divergence to other people. I want to sleep through the night and not be plagued into wakefulness by the stress of knowing that I must have done something dissimilar than what I didn’t do.

I want to live before I die.

Aren’t you sentiment it too? Isn’t there something that ignites your a feeling of excitement that gnaws at your sense of right and wrong and asks for action? Don’t you want to do something more primary with your life?

Will you demand more of yourself than your current routine?

There are probably things you have been meaning to do, have fantasized with regards to doing, yet haven’t gotten around to doing.

It’s not too late. It’s not too late until you take your last breath and utter your final words. Do you want to make them happen?

Will you join me in this quest?

Let’s create a bequest of success and action, so that your final words will not inevitably be what you said and didn’t do, but what you did and persons said with regards to you.

Make this your most action filled week ever!

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