“It’s better to go down in fiery failure because you chased your loftiest ambitions than to spend your best hours watching TV in some subdivision,” Robin Sharma. This one is one of my favorites.  Don’t live the same day over for 85 years and call it a life—we may have been alive but that doesn’t mean we lived.  It’s up to us to make it an adventure and go after the biggest dreams we can muster.  JR Ridinger says that we will only ever be as big as our dreams.  So the question is why would we limit ourselves?  At least if we shoot for something bigger than ourselves we are going to get further than if we stayed in one spot constantly distracted by the world, our fears, or any of the other guilty pleasures we can think of.  But the more we try, the better we feel because we learn what we are capable of.   We will never have the pain of asking what if, if we simply go for it.  Because there is the other side of what if:  What if I succeed?  What if I am able to help others?  What if I am worthy?  What if this idea is really good?  What if that person really does love me?  What if trusted again?  What if taking that leap is going to change my entire life? 

We will never know what we are capable of if we live in distraction and numb out.  That’s easy and it’s all part of the greater plan to keep us unhealthy and reliant on broken systems.  I digress.  But the truth of the point remains the same: if we don’t do anything we will never get anything.  We all have fears of failure and that we will never be able to recover from a mistake.  We are taught that failure is bad and that we need to avoid it.  We rarely examine the idea that failure is what can get us where we need to.  It can teach us who is really there for us.  it can teach us that we are able to do more than we think we can.  It teaches us that living isn’t about being perfect and that we can survive and even go so far as to thrive in creating the life we want.  Even if we don’t get what we think we want, we certainly will get what we need when we decide to put aside the fear and go after what calls us.  At least in going after it we have a chance of attaining what we want rather than sitting there.  If we never take action we will never get a result—there will be no chance of getting what we want if we do nothing.  So don’t give into distraction.  Take the chance and do the damn thing.