A Nemesis Named Normal

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This morning I watched a Bloomberg interview with a chief economist talk about the housing market being half-way back to "normal." According to the report the data suggests that the housing market produced gains over the past two years. So as the fundamentals of our economy stay weak, and the Christmas bonus for many was keeping their job, the suggestion of normal is nothing more than a pacifier to quiet your call for change and belief in better.  The call to be normal is a nemesis to personal growth and relational awareness.

There is quite a bit of self-serving security in one's ability to say they are "normal" since the statement incurs that while you may have faults, at least your not like that guy! All the while "That Guy" is saying the exact same about you! The concept of normal never takes into account your own uniqueness, and instead values your ability to blend in.  As you blend in, personal frustration kicks in as the gravitational pull of normal anchors your ambition to personally evolve.

Relationally, normal excuses you from valuing the healthy differences in your spouse or your board room because they operate outside the models of marriage and business that your experiences grew accustomed to.  The numbing power of normal will keep you at bay, while the outliers who understand that normal is nothing more than a crisis of comparison, will grab hold of the fundamentals and sail beyond horizons to a land that eventually will be called normal when the masses catch up.

Your one of a kind finger print confirms your intuition. You are not normal. Just as a priceless one-of-a-kind masterpiece holds value for its intrinsic uniqueness, so we too add more and gain more from our surroundings when we daily mature our own unique talents and relational opportunities.

Win Today!

Victor