A flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick
Recently I've touched lives with quite a few people who are up against the wall with nowhere to go. They haven't taken the time to develop options for their lives. When circumstances failed to work out, they had no alternatives except to keep banging their noses against the same brick wall.
It's my philosophy the life has to have options. Life is a series of experiences that move us down a path for so long and suddenly we find ourselves at the foothill of a mountain. The path ahead is always over a hill and we can never see that what is really over the hill, It's usually another hill. If we do not have options in our lives, when we reach the base of the hill we have no choice but to climb it. Options are the pathways at the base of the hill that lead off in new directions.
I think it is essential to develop choices and options in order to lead a happy, fulfilled life. Who wants to spend his life climbing mountains only to get over the peak and find that there is another mountain to climb?
Many people ask what they can do to develop options for their lives. The answer is simple the process is difficult. It's called developing assets. What can you accumulate today that will give you new choices in the future? How do you get control of your life so life becomes choice not chance?
It is my opinion that skills--what you can do--are the important assets that determine your options. For example, developing your cake decorating skills is a valuable asset. As we learn to decorate cakes well and authentically, we not only open up new pathways for work options but also new dimensions in significant relationships. As I deal with people in all aspects of business and life, I have learned that people with interesting skills do interesting things. They live interesting lives because they always have options from which to choose. http://www.marivis.sitecreatorplus.com/basic_cake_decorating_course.html
Unless we are willing to change, there is very little opportunity to develop options. I've come to the conclusion that people who accomplish great things, those who develop options for their lives have the desire to act on what they learn.
If you want options in your life, if you are not comfortable with your nose up against the wall, realize that if you want to develop options for your life you must keep learning and then act on what you learn. When you make a commitment to learn and then acts, you find yourself involved with new thinking, with new solution, with new challenges, with new opportunities--with options for your life. http://www.marivis.sitecreatorplus.com/basic_cake_decorating_course.html
My challenge for you is to encourage you to risk, to learn. Go after new learning, new techniques. Make a commitment to act on what you learn. Give yourself permission to fail as you start polishing that wonderful diamond in the rough that you really are. Don't go for perfection. That is probably impossible. And anyhow who needs perfection? A flawed diamond is more valuable than a perfect brick.
