BIG DREAMS NEED BIG SACRIFICES - Discipline Yourself - Best Motivational Speeches Compilation
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What does it mean to embrace imperfection?
You were made to break. To be imperfect, intentionally reckless, you were made to break. And thank God. Because I want you to imagine a world where you never cracked. Imagine a world where you never had to pick yourself up and put yourself back together. How truly tragic that would be. Why? Well, it's in the tearing down and building up that we sculpt beauty, that we chisel away the monotony and create a meaning of sorts. Like muscles at the gym, stressed, taxed, intentionally put through the rigors of resistance, micro tears that teach it, ah, I can not only endure, but I can strengthen. That by challenging the status quo, I get a tomorrow that promises more than today. So break. Allow yourself to crack. In fact, there's a saying that it's from our cracks that the light shines through, that meaningful things more often than not were born of broken things, that it wasn't being sheltered from life but thrust upon it that the true magic materialized. It took me years to learn this. And it is, I've been surprised to discover, something that must be relearned every day.
My mind resists and my body fights back. It doesn't want me to be broken. My head wants to navigate away from broken things because broken is flawed, right? Broken is imperfect, you know? And isn't perfect the goal? getting a 10 of 10? Highlight reels, filters, elevator speeches, accolades, who the hell has time to crack in a world that demands smooth edges and shiny surfaces? So I asked myself, at least until about 26, when I first learned that cracking, breaking, disassembling is the precursor to all excellence, the precursor to progress in and of itself, the precursor to anything other than staring out a window and hoping life presents you what you want. One of the most dangerous words I've come to know is perfect. Because perfect is a defense mechanism.
Perfect as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Show me perfection and I'll show you fear. Show me someone who won't go until it's flawless and I'll show you someone who is deeply, deeply afraid. I think our default setting position is to seek the wrong things because beauty is not perfect. Beauty is bruised knees, scraped elbows. Beauty is hurt pride and a crushed ego. Beauty is getting it wrong, not just once, but over and over again. Because these things allow for the breaking down, and the breaking down is the only thing that invites the building up. So you fear cracks and jagged edges? I fear lacking the courage to let life humble me. I fear clean shoes, predictability, and a life void of criticism.
I fear a world where I stay right where I am, untarnished and perfectly assembled. Today, And every day after, the goal is to let life crack me wide open. Let the light shine through. Let me build again and again and again from the pile of broken things that I have made. Let me take them and assemble a world that means something. like a phoenix rising from the ashes to start anew every day. Forget the illusions of perfection. Forget the off-ramps and false security interwoven into what you know now, because you were made for more. You were made to stretch, to explore, to live. You were made The world, it needs you. But it needs the real you. Not the one with the mask looking to blend in. Nor the one making all those concessions to avoid being left out. No, the real you.
With your flaws and your insufficiencies, your strengths and your gifts, your hopes and your dreams, It needs the you that so often hides away underneath that blanket of caution and skepticism. The you that's coupled with vulnerability. More easily ignored than brought to life with conviction. But that's the you this world needs. When I was younger, I seemed to separate life into two categories. Me in one, and everyone else in the other. And guess which of the two categories I assumed had it all figured out. In my mind, I was the one, the only one, who didn't know. The one who was winging it, stumbling my way through each and every day. All those other people, though, They not only had plans, they had the right plans. They knew the right details. But I didn't.
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