GO FOR IT!!!

Many people meet their death bed with many regrets, a lot of “I should have, wish I would of and if I could do it all over again.” How can you and I avoid this tragic occurrence from happening to us? It’s simple, “GO FOR IT.” Now your “IT” may be different than mine, yours may be to get a degree, travel the world, start a business, become a public speaker or start a foundation to help at risk children. Whatever your “IT” is I want to encourage you to “GO FOR IT.”

I speak with plenty of people who are bored, disinterested or just fed up with their current job, life or overall direction they are headed. I simply tell them this feeling is a result of not pursuing that inner desire on the inside of them.

This is not always a career change it may be your deep rooted passion for singing. Not to be a big time super star, but maybe to perform weekly at the local Jazz Club in your neighborhood.

Until you fulfill this desire, it will haunt you until the day you die. I have to run a full marathon before I die. I have run a half marathon, but it did not kill the desire on the inside of me to complete a full one. Now I know what many of you are saying, why would anyone want to run or walk 26.2 miles? I say the same thing about people who desire to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. When I was offered this opportunity in the military, I gladly rejected this opportunity, while others literally jumped at the opportunity.

In 1994 Michael “Air” Jordan arguably the greatest player to play basketball walked away from the game at his prime, some thought. Fresh off his third championship, many wondered why he would do this. I know. There was something burning on the inside of him. From a quote in a Steve Aschburner article for Inside The NBA, here is what many had to say:

"Everybody else around the league thought that this guy is just heading into his prime, and to chase something that maybe's not going to happen -- he's so great -- why would he take the time, or waste the time, to do that?''

Many people called Jordan’s attempt at baseball a failure, I see it very differently. Whether he made the roster or not, what he did was fulfill a desire that would have haunted him for the rest of his life. When Jordan was asked why he did it, he replied,

“I want to play baseball. It was my father's dream that I become a baseball player.”

If you don’t know how the rest of the story goes, Jordan ended his attempt a year later and returned to basketball and won another three championships. And by the way, he happens to own his own professional basketball team now. So pursuing his desire didn’t knock him off track not one bit. What it did was allow him to go to his grave not wondering what would have happen if I had just went “FOR IT.”

What desire do you have that will not escape you, you think about it, dream about it, and wonder what if. It’s time to stop wondering and “GO FOR IT.”

THINK BETTER, LIVE BETTER