Sunday, September 15, 2013

Being Average

I'm more than halfway through reading John C. Maxwell's "The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth" and I am very much enjoying it.  Possibly another book that has changed my life (the other books being The Bible and The Blessed Life)  But there is one passage in the book that explains "Being Average" that I found very interesting that I had to share it:

"Too many people are willing to settle for average.  Average is what the failures claim to be when their families and friends ask them, 'Why they have not been more successful?' 

Average is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. . .which one are you?

  Average is run of the mill, mediocre, insignificant, non-entity.  Being average is the lazy mans cop-out  its lacking the guts to take a stand in life, its living by default.

Being Average is to take up space with no purpose, to take a trip through life and pay no fare, to return no interest in God's investment in you.

Being Average is to pass life away with time than to pass once times away with life.  It's to kill time rather than work it to death.

To be average, is to be forgotten once you pass from this life.  The successful are remembered for their contributions, the failures are remembered because they tried.  But the average, the silent majority, is just forgotten.

To be average is to commit the greatest crime one can against oneself, community, humanity and God.

The saddest epitaph is this, 'Here lies Mr. and Mrs. Average, here lies the remains of what might have been except for their belief that they were only average.'  "

Powerful passage and makes you want to do and be better.

Keep on evolving,

Mr. Robinson