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Nothing Significant Was Ever Accomplished By A Realistic Person (01.24.08 Nugget of the Week) You can't test your destiny cautiously. "Don't play for safety-it's the most dangerous thing in the world," said Hugh Walpole. The key is this: forfeit the safety of what we are for what we could become. Unless you do something beyond what you have already done, you will never grow. Always pick an obstacle big enough to matter when you overcome it. Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh has a great name for his outlandish tie collection-No Boundaries. What a great slogan to live our lives by. Get out of your comfort zone. Know the rules, then break some. Take the limits off. Don't accept good enough as good enough. Tolerating mediocrity in others makes you more mediocre. Melvin Evans said, "The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illumined by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt. They haven't the time." When you are a "realistic" person in everything you do, your focus is only on this immediate, measurable moment. Thinking this way limits you and restricts you in considering the unlimited possibilities of the future. You can't make a place for yourself in the sun if you only live under the family tree. Go! Launch out! Be involved in something bigger than you. Do more! Dorthea Brand stated, "All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: act as if it were impossible to fail." An over-cautious person burns the bridges of opportunity before he gets to them. Most of the people who sit around and wait for the harvest haven't planted anything. The average person doesn't want much and usually gets even less. Until you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't really begun to fully live. "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing" (Helen Keller). -John Mason, from the book Know Your Limits, Then Ignore Them
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