Have you ever sat there and though what you wanted out of life? When you think of what an individual wants out of life, they try to achieve a goal. Whether they want to better their education and become more knowledgeable, or try to achieve the fame of becoming a movie star, or musician. Whatever it might be, that motivation and drive must come within one self. To want to better your life and achieve greatness, takes a great deal of commitment, but if you manage to commit to something, then you will be a lot happier within. Because in reality the only person that really knows what you are feeling, is you. You’re the person that dictates what you are going to be in life. I mean, sure there are always people on the outside that will try to influence you into being their pawn, in their game of chess. And what I mean by this is that no matter what you do someone will try to control you, or influence you into doing things that you don’t want to do. Kind of like when they say “Peer Pressure is a Bitch”, sometimes you say no, but that constant pressure from your friends sometimes kicks in and you just say “fuck it”. But one has to know how to control themselves, and know their own body, as you are the only one that can dictate the constraints that your body has to offer. When you don’t let outside influences get to you, then that is when you could achieve greatness. One must live for themselves and do what they want with life; because you are the only one that knows what makes you happy inside. How do you think that some of the greatest people to walk this earth get to where they are. Not because they let people run their lives, but because they set out to do something with their lives, and they achieved it. They knew what makes them happy, and what skills they have to try and achieve that goal. For instance, Mark Walberg achieved his goal of being an actor because he was determined to achieve greatness, not because someone influenced him, but because he knew inside, that he had the skills to star in a huge blockbuster hit. If one is determined to accomplish a goal, then with all their will power, they will be able to achieve it.
How you describe greatness is a very direct and influential method. I really like the tone of your blog which helps to positively encourage one to achieve greatness. Greatness I agree must come from within. We all need this kind of pep talk now and then to help us get through our lives when negativity takes over. Similarly to Mark Walberg we can all persist to achieve what we want out of life. Peer pressure is a very common and overlooked aspect in our achievements that is greatly overlooked. I agree it is one of the main aspects our our lives that can deter our inner being and inner greatness.
ReplyDeleteOutside Influences can be greatly effect our lives and our decision making. IT is always like you say when we turn these influences off and start to look into our own mind and then we can act in true rationality. I agree that these outside or external thoughts that are breeding in our minds many times gets in the way of doing whats right for us. We should be able to dictate to ourselves what is right for us. I heavily agree that it is our power within ourselves that we sometimes take for granted. We always have the choice to use it in a way beneficial to us.