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How to seize the day
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I want to talk to you briefly about how to regain those blissful moments–sometimes fleeting moments–in our lives when we feel the awakened beast from within. The awakened what? Am I mad? (I think we’ve covered this): unconventional, atypical, off the beaten path, off the rocker, anti-routine taking madman–nuts, crazy, odd–whatever you choose to call it, I’ll be glad to endorse it. But those moments during which we all know we are our own artisans in the making of life-defining movements toward our goals. Those moments filled with heart-pounding, adrenaline flushed kickboxing brawls up the mountainside. Those moments when we expertly navigate our radio chatter filled cockpits at full-throttle through heart-stopping maneuvers up over the cliffs and down within feet of the valley floors. You know, those moments.
To regain those moments of monstrosity-defined acts of our own wills where we tackle our objectives with the full forces of deepest passions, we must, first and always, set our eyes on clear targets. We must take even just a brief moment or two and envision our entire life extended out before us empty and without what it is we want; and once that empty field comes to our mind’s eye as the first sign of a tragic life, we must blink it away. The beginnings of tears will be the fuel we inject directly into our blood before we take that deep and knowing breath that comes to the prepared and determined fighter which is then cast out through mouth and nostril beneath two furrowed brows and bloodshot eyes. This is war.
Then spread the feet and clench fists. Summon that manly beast from within. What stands now before you is no easy fight, but instead the longest, most brutal fight for next thousands of days to come. Are you up to that challenge now? Your enemy is your future, your life ahead, your fate, your destiny–to do as you please–but to do that you must fight and claw and move. Your sweat, your pain and your battered fists are the only badges you will receive–but we haven’t much time. We must move, must move, now move!
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Dereck :: Jun.23.2008 :: Motivation :: 1 Comment »
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