Citizens of the Acreage of Befalling

 31 December 18:00   Citizens of the Acreage of Opportunity

     "We authority these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are able by their Architect with assertive unalienable rights; that apartof these are life, liberty, and the following of happiness." --The Acknowledgment of Independence, July 4, 1776

    In a crowded, airless allowance in the city-limits of Philadelphia 228 years ago this week, a accumulation of men actively stepped forward, one by one, and added their names to a individual area of cardboard -- anniversary man alive that if they faltered in their aggregate vision, purpose, commitment, or action, he had just active his own afterlife warrant. Yet afore they were done, a absolute of 56 men had signed.

    They knew what they wanted: They had a dream, a vision, a goal.

    They knew why they capital it: They had a purpose.

    They knew the amount and were accommodating to pay it: They were committed.

    They had a plan: They took action.

    And they set in motion a never afore absurd and still amiss and abridged alternation of contest that continues to this day against the ever-expanding eyes of abandon and amends for all.

    They triumphed, and yet their ultimate success charcoal to be realized. Its achievement is a bequest handed down through the generations, to us and through us, and on to those who follow.

    This anniversary as we bless their vision, purpose, commitment, and activity (and as we aswell account the afterwards ancestors who accept kept the acceptance and bigger on the dream), accede that it is abundantly because of their vision, purpose, commitment, and activity that you are today a aborigine of the Acreage of Opportunity.

    You and I are the recipients of some adored ability bought by others. Whatever our situations and backgrounds, we adore a abandon still alone dreamed of in some locations of the world.

    But in the bosom of the accustomed words of the Acknowledgment of Independence, there s addition byword that goes mostly unnoticed. Thomas Jefferson wrote:

    "[A]ll acquaintance hath shewn that flesh are added disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to appropriate themselves by abandoning the forms to which they are accustomed."

    It s addition way of adage that, sadly, alotof humans artlessly aren t motivated abundant to do annihilation to change the cachet quo -- even if it s awful, even if they abhor it, even if it s boring killing them. It s addition way of adage the "comfort zone" rules.

    Because abandon and befalling are our circadian reality, we generally yield them for accepted in a way that humans in some locations of the apple acquisition astounding, even unthinkable. We accumulate ourselves apprenticed of the true amount and acceptation of these gifts. And we too generally decay them by not acutely seeing how adored they are and ACTING aloft that -- by not extensive out and demography authority of the befalling that surrounds us and is allotment of the actual air we breathe. The befalling for activity itself -- added life, bigger life, activity beneath no one s thumb.

    As citizens of the Acreage of Opportunity, though, we accept a angelic albatross NOT to decay what s been accustomed to us, bought with the claret and diaphoresis of those who went afore and longed for by millions about the world. We accept a albatross to lay authority of that bottomless opportunity, access out of our airless "comfort zones," and create the alotof of our abandon -- to be, do, and accept all we charge for all the activity we are able of living.

    We accept an obligation to make our own success and the befalling to advice others do the aforementioned and to braid ALL our alone successes into the glorious, amateurish carpeting of this country s past, present, and future.

    As with the signers of the Acknowledgment and all the ballsy men and women who accept agitated the torch, it all begins with a dream. A vision. A goal.

    Just bygone a actual astute being told me, "If you don t accept a dream and a ambition that you re actively alive toward, you are trading your activity for nothing."

    Think of the signers or of any abundant achiever in any acreage of endeavor in any country -- anyone you admire, anyone who is successful. What do they all accept in accepted besides dreams, vision, goals, purpose? They all accept something alleged discipline, a chat that anon frightens or repels some (perhaps most) humans because if they see or apprehend it, they anticipate "punishment," "deprivation."

    They abide the angle of abstemiousness because they anticipate it constricts them; they adopt no rules, no affairs -- just "freedom." Ironically, though, that affectionate of "freedom" is artlessly the appropriate to abide in the "comfort zone" area mediocrity is king. And conduct is the key that unlocks those chains.

    What conduct absolutely agency is artlessly this: The adeptness to accord yourself a command and then do it -- "to see the job through."

    First you charge a plan (command), then activity (follow-through). To do that, you charge something that s bigger than yourself to actuate you -- your dream, vision, goal, and your purpose. True Charge to those things, then, agency demography Activity consistently, daily: Giving yourself a command and afterward through. And to chase through is a analogue of the word, "succeed."

    Without this charge built-in of your own centermost desires, dreams and goals abide abandoned wishes. Eyes becomes a affecting pipedream. And purpose? There is none.

    You already accept aural you aggregate you charge to accomplish aggregate you absolutely want. You are added able than you can imagine. But alone you can yield the activity to set that ability -- and yourself -- free.

    What do YOU wish for your activity -- for yourself, your admired ones, your community, country, world? What s your DREAM, VISION, GOAL?

    Why do you wish those things? What s your PURPOSE?

    What amount are you accommodating to pay? Are you COMMITTED?

    Do you accept a plan? Are you demography Activity -- Circadian activity in afterward through on your charge to your own eyes and purpose?

    We re at the center point of the year. We re at the time if we bless and admire one of the apple s abundant acts of vision, purpose and commitment.

    We are at the moment of decision, and you are next in line, adverse YOUR choice: Abide to the chains of mediocrity and a lifetime of clearing for beneath than you are able of being, doing, and accepting -- or affirmation your power, breach chargeless of the insidious abuse of the "comfort zone," and acknowledge your own ability and appropriate to life, liberty, and the following of beatitude as YOU ascertain it.

    The cardboard is afore you. The pen is in your hand.

    Will you sign?

    

 


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