Straight to the Point Saturdays

I must admit that I have some of the best friends ever. I mean the things we share and the advice we give is most of the time priceless and at other times reckless. We talk about life’s struggles, complain about the media hype of the lame people we know, and read each other when our cocky takes an all time low that leaves us to high to fly in the reality of life. Boy, the benefits of friendship…I guess. Friendship is not the topic for today’s posting though, but it provides a background for the point I will be making today, so bare with me as a take you back yesterday around 7:43p EST.

My friend who will remain nameless at this time was venting about a life decision and like always we vent, provide our fictional solution, vent some more, reason with a rational solution, and while we have decided on a solution we are left still venting. Funny….right! So as I provided my rational solution to the problem I hit him with a “Don’t settle for poor quality when you are of quality”. I reread my advice and soon went into a praise break; ignoring my friends comments and realizing I just gave myself some great advice that applies to many aspects of my own life. Now how did I make this about me? This conversation was about my friend. Sometimes in the mist of someone else’s problem the advice you give breathes life into the circumstances that you face in your own life. So as I finished my self-absorbed praise break I return to the conversation to realize that our venting was over and the problem was solved.

The fact still remained the same….why do we accept poor quality when we are of a higher quality? We do this in almost ever aspect of life. Think about it! How many times have we promised ourselves the best, but settle for the second or third. Agreeing to things only to annoy ourselves in the end. This attitude limits one from reaching their full potential and success. I mean we all want the best quality, but we don’t always boss up to it. The best never settles for OK. No! They settle for GREAT and even great isn’t great enough.

Settling creates a spirit of just being average and average is cool in terms of grades, but not in the game of life. It’s like being in the in the safe zone and coasting along with the flow of how everyone else moves. STOP! That is not the way life should be lived..especially your life. Settling for a used car when you could have a new one. Settling for a useless relationship, when you could be single and prepared to mingle. Settling in a mess when you have the power to clean up the trash and completely let it go. It is an easy habit to settle for the enslaved life, being accustomed to the normal flow of existing.  Not trying hard enough to free yourself of the chains of settling and lack of trying, but we think within our minds that where we are is all that we can do and be. We have to tell ourselves: If I want better, I must do better. You will get what you settle for, if you settle for mediocrity you will get nothing but misery.

Do the WORK….Ask Yourself.

Have you tried everything in your power to change the way you approach your life goals?

Have you made a concrete plan to get all you desire out of life?

Do you have the vulnerability, courage, patience and integrity to entertain a new way of thinking about your life without settling?

What would you do if weren’t scared to be great?

What have you gained from living the life of a settler?

Demand a life that is worth your quality and exceeds your expectations. Stop living safe and start living bold; never settling for mediocre. That spirit should never exists or be tolerated. When things are below your expectation leap over it and keep pressing towards the quality of life that you have for your yourself.  My friend is alright and has made the best decision for himself. As a friend of mine with higher quality expectations we should already know the decision he has made about his circumstances. We don’t seek to settle around here and neither should you.

mOOd: I shall NOT settle for things below my quality of life.