Aim As High As You Can!
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michelangelo
Most of us are not encouraged to aim high in the life of our choosing.
For that matter, we aren’t encouraged to really aim anywhere at all despite that we keep hearing to live our best lives.
By the time you hear this edict, you’ve been trained to follow the beaten path of wherever society is going. Get onto that bandwagon, sagging as it is, and follow it wherever it heads. It can be confusing to get the mixed messages.
The few who pick their own place to aim and aim high can achieve all kinds of self-fulfilling fab things.
Every time I have aimed high, I achieved something I didn’t think possible.
Be it community projects or art or writing.
Over the summer I submitted my story to Psychology Today for possible publication in their Two-Minute Memoir column.
Two weeks later, they told me my story was being considered. A few weeks after that they told me I’d been selected. (more…)
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