True Greatness

"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?"
- William Makepeace Thackeray

Remember that your greatness as a human being is not determined by the present conditions in which you find yourself. Greatness is something that comes from within us. It is something that compels us to change our world, but does not have the power to compel those changes to be always successful or easy. If you are great, it is because you DO strive, because you DO struggle, regardless of the outcome. Every day that you choose to be proactive in achieving your goals is a day that you stake claim to your own greatness. Every day that you refuse to be paralyzed by doubts or fears or guilt or pain or exhaustion, is a day that you earn the reward that you seek.

Food for Thought: If you are facing troubles at the moment, remember, you will succeed someday because of your greatness today, or you will fail for the lack of remembering it. It is, as always, your choice to make.

Proactive Inspiration Challenge: Rise up today. Rise up in your mind and in your heart. Resolve that you will not be beaten...that you will not falter. That you will move forward in action towards your life and towards your dreams...that you will put to rout all that is not life...that you will disregard any thought that holds you back.