A 55 year old man was caught in a hotel fire where he climbed out his window and kneeled on the ledge. Holding on to the window with flames shooting out and his hand literally burning off. He could have given up, ending the unimaginable pain of third degree burns over more than forty percent of his body and plunge to his death, and yet he held on until the firefighters came to save him.
After reading Sumner Redstone’s opening chapter in his biography about how he survived the hotel fire, I was reminded on how fragile life is. Life can end on a second’s notice and yet few people make the changes needed to achieve the life of their dreams. Even if you live out the typical lifespan of seventy-five plus years will you achieve all of the things you dream? See all of the places you want to see? Experience all of the events you desire? Most have to say no because most are not taking the steps to make their dreams happen.
Our world is filled with superstars that make it happen everyday; Tiger Woods, Martha Stewart, Sumner Redstone, and Nelsen Mandela as well as thousands more from every culture. They do what others are unwilling or are unaware of that they must do. The difference, superstars have consistent and never-ending movement towards their dreams. They act in spite of fear and they get up more times than they are knocked down. Superstars hold on longer than anyone else will. They say, “yes I can” more times that everyone else can say, “you can’t do that.”
After fifty hours of surgeries and months of rehabilitation Redstone Sumner is doing well thirty years later. Sumner is one of the richest men in the world in all meanings of the word. Doctors said he might never walk again. Today you will find him playing tennis nearly every day. Most of us will never go through an event Sumner did and so most of us do not have any excuses to let life pass us by without taking action on our dreams.
What is your dream that you want to pursue? What is holding you back? Don’t listen to the naysayers or even your own negative psychobabble. Yes you can, and it is time that you did.
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