Creating Excellence: Don't Set the Bar...Be the Bar!!
Life is not an accident. We are a creation of what we know and what we see. We tend to emulate those around us don't we? Those we admire and think highly of. Even more so we tend to rise to the level of the people around us. It really does not matter if it is Football or Family......Career or Academics....Charitable or Entertainment....we all live what we see and become what we know.
If you are a kid and grow up around crime and brutality.... history tells us you may reflect that in your life. If you are rich and grow up with lavish excess and everything you want... history tells us that you are going to expect the world to be dished up to you on a platter.
If you are a kid and grow up around crime and brutality.... history tells us you may reflect that in your life. If you are rich and grow up with lavish excess and everything you want... history tells us that you are going to expect the world to be dished up to you on a platter.
We become what we see and what we are taught. We will behave like that which is around us and we will only rise as high as the competition we see. To a great extent this is true with all of us.
While it will never define us... it can shape us. It can influence the decisions we make...the dreams we dream....the expectations we have in our lives. It can put limits on us and blinders too. This must never be allowed to happen!
If you can make the difference in one young persons life you must. If you can teach one person that they can do anything they desire...you must. Call it Pay It Forward or what ever you want...but you owe it to yourself and to the world to do just that!
Don't make it about money, or personal glory, or Fame, or anything else. Make it about one special young person or more than one if you can. I promise you if you do this it will be revisited upon you 100 times over. Put your heart and your soul into it. Take the time to help. Give advice, Give money if you feel the need, Give your time...must mostly give of yourself.
Give You...the real you...the you that had the dreams when you were young...the you that looked out at a thousand stars on a perfect night and said "what if?". Give that You to somebody in need.
Build the Dream in somebody else. Never say "NO!". Never say "You Can't" or "You Won't". Say rather "Yes!", "You Can!" and "You Will!". Light the flame in another and by doing so rekindle your own.
To those that would crush the Dream or put limits on the young....well... be aware. Some of us out here are watching. We see you. We watch you. And someday we are coming for you. Coming to stop you from causing anymore damage to our future! Bide your time if you will...but cherish it because that is a fleeting thing indeed.
To those that are with us....Set the standard. Not only Set the bar...but strive to be the Bar. Be excellent with all you do. Encourage and expect excellence in those around you.
Love.
Protect.
Build up those around you.
Work hard.
Be diligent.
D R E A M!
If this little guy grows up knowing what others have done to make it.....knowing what it takes to achieve..... expecting to be like those around him... Giving himself to others.... he can and will soar with the Eagles.
So can all of them.... They can all be Eagles!
Create Something good today.
While it will never define us... it can shape us. It can influence the decisions we make...the dreams we dream....the expectations we have in our lives. It can put limits on us and blinders too. This must never be allowed to happen!
If you can make the difference in one young persons life you must. If you can teach one person that they can do anything they desire...you must. Call it Pay It Forward or what ever you want...but you owe it to yourself and to the world to do just that!
Don't make it about money, or personal glory, or Fame, or anything else. Make it about one special young person or more than one if you can. I promise you if you do this it will be revisited upon you 100 times over. Put your heart and your soul into it. Take the time to help. Give advice, Give money if you feel the need, Give your time...must mostly give of yourself.
Give You...the real you...the you that had the dreams when you were young...the you that looked out at a thousand stars on a perfect night and said "what if?". Give that You to somebody in need.
Build the Dream in somebody else. Never say "NO!". Never say "You Can't" or "You Won't". Say rather "Yes!", "You Can!" and "You Will!". Light the flame in another and by doing so rekindle your own.
To those that would crush the Dream or put limits on the young....well... be aware. Some of us out here are watching. We see you. We watch you. And someday we are coming for you. Coming to stop you from causing anymore damage to our future! Bide your time if you will...but cherish it because that is a fleeting thing indeed.
To those that are with us....Set the standard. Not only Set the bar...but strive to be the Bar. Be excellent with all you do. Encourage and expect excellence in those around you.
Love.
Protect.
Build up those around you.
Work hard.
Be diligent.
D R E A M!
If this little guy grows up knowing what others have done to make it.....knowing what it takes to achieve..... expecting to be like those around him... Giving himself to others.... he can and will soar with the Eagles.
So can all of them.... They can all be Eagles!
Create Something good today.
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