Wanting something so much you do nothing

Growing up we're taught to dream big.  We were asked to write out our dreams in a fourth grade essay or perhaps show them in a seventh grade collage. Yet, in the same stages of life we were also bombarded with messages that suggested we cast off all planning and purpose for the sake of young fun.  To make sense of the contradictions we may have found solace in the arms of potential.

Potential can be very warming, just as long as your comparison scales can always find someone worse off than you.  Potential makes us feel like there is always tomorrow, just as long as we get the minimums of everyday life done today.  However, as time progresses, if potential doesn't convert to practice, we can fall victim to the paralyzed place of wanting something so much that we do nothing.  You see, the potential we proudly believe to be harbored inside, can become such a comfort blanket that we would hate to risk the inevitable set-backs of actually pursuing it.

Within biographies we read a re-occurring theme for those who have launched out in pursuit of their dream, which is while they may have lost their good friend called potential in the low moments of life, it was replaced by a better friend called industrious.  Realized potential is marked by a trail of industrious process.  Once industrious is archived as a trait common to our character, we will have what it takes to do something about what we've been wanting.

Win Today!

Victor