“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”—Thomas Jefferson
There is not much that needs to be said of the above quote. I don’t necessarily wholly buy in to the notion of “think and grow rich” (Napoleon Hill). There is much to the idea of positive thinking—though I prefer “possibility thinking” (Robert H. Schuller)—but success requires more than just thinking. Success requires action—the type of action that goes beyond that which we are accustomed to doing.
I try to think in terms of the “overload principle” (in order for a body system to adapt it must be challenged to a level greater than that to which it is accustomed). That is, if we want to become something we have never been, we have to be willing to do things we have never done before. So, today, we have to ask ourselves: “Am I doing anything today that I couldn’t do yesterday?”
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!