Mary’s Minute
“Good is the enemy of great.”
~
Jim Collins
Sometimes we all crave getting to a point of
being settled where we do not have great highs and lows, but can just settle in. The problem is that when we settle in, we
often settle for mediocrity. Let’s face
it, mediocrity can be pretty easy. It is
a place where we are not great. We are
not happy, but we also are not bad or sad.
Mediocrity or even “good” can be classified as good enough. We avoid discomfort in this state of being.
Discomfort allows us to push for more. Out of our failures come our greatest accomplishments. Out of our sorrow can come our greatest
joys. In Greek mythology the phoenix was
a bird that rose out of the ashes, and I believe that we need to have lows in
order to push us to greatness. We need to have disappoints and failures in
order to rise out of the ashes like the phoenix into greatness.
Let yourself make mistakes. Allow yourself to feel pain.
Teaching and life may be easy if we settle for “good”
but the author Jim Collins reminds us that good can hold us back from being
great. You deserve to be great in everything
you do. Getting to great - getting to
true happiness is worth enduring the lows and making mistakes.
Allow your discomfort to push you beyond what
you thought was possible.
Have a great week!
Mary
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