To live a richer, more meaningful life, you need to become a source of thoughts and actions which provide meaning to your life. You cannot take control of your life just by following others. Instead, you need to play your own game.
Perhaps most of us know that, but in practice it’s not commonly seen. You surrender to the customs of the family, workplace or society at the cost of your singularity and start doing things which nobody cares about. Or you feel like being caught in an Unconstructed Action Space.
(Photo Credit: Bill Ward’s Brickpile)
A common pattern of world’s most successful people is not to worry about what other people think of them. M K Gandhi didn’t worry, Nelson Mandela didn’t worry, Bill Gates didn’t worry or Steve Jobs didn’t worry. Instead, they played their own game powered by their own instincts; took the road less traveled and created the history.
So today is a good time to pause and think about it. Reconsider how you operate. Are you doing some things just because everyone else is doing?
Observe your daily routine. Right from the time your day starts to the time your day ends. Take a stock of all of your routine actions. Are all of your actions your conscious choices? Or there are some actions you take just because your family, friends, neighbors or colleagues take.
Consider what Caryl P. Haskins quoted,
“It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.”
And Robin Sharma looked at the same from different perspective,
“If you follow the crowd, the place you will most likely end up at is the exit.”
It is up to you to decide whether you want to follow the crowd and make sure you’ll end up at a known exit point or you want to construct something which has never before constructed and leave a trail.
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