Friday, March 9, 2018

3-9-2018


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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