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My Biggest Fear is Myself
Following on from my earlier post, here is me reposting a thought I had at the start of the year. I think it’s appropriate.
My biggest fear isn’t that I won’t be a success, that I won’t be taken seriously or that I’ll go unnoticed. It isn’t that I won’t be the best husband or father in the world, that my children won’t live up to their potential or that I won’t fulfill my potential.
My biggest fear is that I am a powerful person. That I have potential. That I am an inspiration. My biggest fear is that people will watch me and, in watching me, will make me not want to outshine them. My biggest fear is that I will hide who I am for fear that it will offend someone else, that it will cause someone shame or that I will in fact be better than someone else.
But hiding who I am, being falsely humble and standing back when I should be stepping up does everyone a disservice. If I show who I am to the world, it will cause others to show who they are. And the world will be better for it.
My New Year’s Resolution isn’t to be anything more than who I am. And it’s to not allow myself to be any less.
Feel free to call me on this if you see me standing back when I should be at the front, being quiet when I should be speaking up or ever saying “it’s nothing” when I’ve done something worth being thanked for. And, hopefully, I’ll call you on it if you do it too.
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about 7 years ago
Winners want the ball.
about 7 years ago
Hi Jeremy
Great post. To those who will think this is coming across as arrogant, its not.
Great work! Keep it up!
about 7 years ago
You are touching on the “normalcy of greatness.” The heroes we hold so high made daily decisions not to just “give what others needed,” but to “give what they had to give.”
You gave beautiful voice to that. Thanks for the reminder as we start the day.
about 7 years ago
Firstly bugger that. I cant remember who said that the worst thing we have to fear is fear it self, it may have been Winston Churchill, and if it was, either way, I suggest you read his autobiography or any one of the bio’s available, some in which are 1 book only. They say life is short. It is. I can understand everything you are saying, and even worse there has been the odd occasion where I have reacted to my own detriment. But I say, as we all get older, what have we got to lose. We only live once, and we all have the opportunity to be great. The difference between great people and everyone else is that those who have become great did not fear taking the risks that enabled them to become great. Further that for all the knock backs and set backs, they kept trying and never gave in. We all have it within us to become great. The test of us all is whether we have the stamina and guts to risk our uniformity to stand out from the crowd. There are very few people Ive ever met who don’t have it within themselves to do so, but the number who have the guts to do so is much smaller, and I’d count you amongst that number. I hope I don’t sound too clichéd when I say Carpe deum. Seize the day!
about 7 years ago
ditto
about 7 years ago
Dunc: I think we agree…
about 7 years ago
To many motivational courses in previous jobs :-)
about 7 years ago
The old rules of Chivalry stated that a Knight should not hide his light under a bushel because it would not be the truth. If asked, he should always be truthful, which might involve asserting his superiority. Mind you, fantasists were not tolerated. From your writing, Sir Jeremy, I think you fall into the former category :-)
about 7 years ago
iv had(Still having) this struggle with this article ‘MOZART REDEEMS OUR MEDIOCRITY’
{ http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/
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the abstract: gr8 ppl are gr8. everybody cant be gr8. admit. dont identify and undermine their gr8ness. look up and worship-cus they hav been what u cant.
and worst is, my best friend agrees with this.
iv a problem with that cus, i believed instinctively all my life(22) i was as great as all those big shots, and its just a matter of time i realise myself. And if i were to say myself i cant be ‘einstien’ or ‘kurt cobain’, i see a dead world. nothing mobilizes me . nothing interests me, nothing inspires me. –meaningless.
i think that article doesnt apply to all- and the dreamers shold dream on; shedding inhibitions; self doubt;humulity;soar ridiculuosly in imagination.
my soul is convinced-somebody just gimme a reason 4 my mind.
about 7 years ago
I find that this is very inspiring and just what I needed to hear at this particular time. Thanks lots and carry on dude :)