The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur

January 9A Life Imagined

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. They will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within them; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in their favor in a more liberal sense, and they will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Henry David Thoreau—Walden (1854)

You are 100 percent unique (just like everyone else!)—there is no other human being exactly like you. That fact of science alone should be enough to allow us to choose whatever path we like rather than follow in the steps of others or choose a life determined by those who would judge right and wrong for us.

Are you living your life based on past prescriptions, or are you asking, “What do I want, what am I afraid of, what must I change?”

Or are you comparing yourself to others?

To live more fully, you must stop reinforcing judgments on yourself made by others and you must stop imposing your judgment. These are the mental exercises that compound daily to rob us of our essential, 100 percent unique nature.

Here's the thing: there's nothing to win. There's only your essential nature, and when you discover the awesome power of that, when you start to feel that in your heart, you'll discover the key to this entire game.

All day today, take ...