Those of you reading these words that are in the middle of authoring your OPUS, building your sCORE, and committing to baby step your way forward through your PoP, please take notice.
This will be a struggle.
Expect the struggle, engage in the struggle, embrace the struggle, and you will meet with success in some uncommon hour. You just will.
The reason Thoreau penned his most famous words was because they were true, back in the day. They still are.
Thoreau, in 1854 I believe, wrote one to, as he put it, “wake his neighbors up.” He said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation, and die with their song still inside of them.” Here’s my 2% extrapolation, for what it’s worth in 2011…
We like to hear truth but we don’t naturally follow truth.
We know that most men lead lives of quiet desperation and yet we’re afraid to say it out loud, about ourselves. We want to find our voice without challenging our vocal chords to sing. We want a life of OPUS that’s aligned with our sCORE once we’ve authored version 1.0. We want to get on with it before we’ve even got “it.” We want instant clarity, quick confidence, and pure conviction. We want it now. Here’s what you’ll get, instead.
Struggle.
Expect, engage, and embrace the struggle. Authoring your sCORE and living out your OPUS will not come easily even though the concept is oh so simple. Do not worry that you’re on version 10.5 and it still doesn’t feel like your voice. Do not fret that you’ve rinsed and repeated it to the point of exhaustion and it’s still not there. Keep putting pen to pad, so to speak. You have a song inside, start singing my friend.
This will be a struggle.
Sing, anyway. AND, in some uncommon hour, you will meet with success. You just will…
BUILT TO LEAD 