Dave Thomas, Sir Richard Branson, The Wright Brothers, Walt Disney, Quentin Tarantino, Johnny Depp, Nicholas Cage, Jim Carrey, Christina Aguilera, John Travolta, Chris Rock, Tom Petty, Mary Kay Ash, Halle Berry, Michael Dell, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Rachel Ray, John D. Rockefeller Sr., and Steven Spielberg.
So what do all these people have in common. I will get to that later.
Well I have been doing some thinking about my own dreams and what it will take to get to them. Currently I am a student working on getting some skills I think are important to make the next step in the process. I do believe that any time you have an opportunity to learn, be it in an academic setting or from the school of life you must embrace those moments.
A story that relates to where I am going with this. During “Return of the King” Arogon is told to set aside the ranger embrace his true self as King of Gondor. The role of king was both a right because of birth and also the time spent developing the necessary abilities to be king.
My wrestle really comes to the need to feel qualified through vast knowledge vs passion to accomplish some major tasks. Does anyone else wrestle with this one? The truth is everyone wrestles with the fear of the unknown. It’s funny I have been going through the photos I took at the games in preparation for a photo exhibit at the St. Thomas Public Library (which I am thrilled for) and I was flooded with so many great memories. From one little step of buying a one way ticket to Vancouver (which Adam reminded me scared me something fierce) has led to photos on the front page of the news paper, creation of my book 23 Seconds, to the photo exhibit. It only took the first step of actually moving forward on a crazy adventure. With all this said I am beginning to plan my next steps and let’s see what happens.
Oh what they have in common is that they either dropped out of high school or have no formal training in there chosen path just sheer desire.
Josh
June 17, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Charles R. Swindoll wrote, “[Attitude] is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company… a church… [or] a home.” I suppose many of our dreams can be within our reach with that in mind.
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June 17, 2010 at 4:58 PM
Thanks for sharing, I found this story while googling for lyric updates, interesting comments and good points made.
Brandon
June 18, 2010 at 11:29 AM
YAY!!! AN UPDATE
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I couldn’t agree more with this. I believe the term is “nothing ventured, nothing gained”. A lot of people (many listed here) put a lot into who they’ve become and they did it without being formally “prepared”, which is something I think we all agonize over.