Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Extraordinary People


I admire extraordinary people.  I strive to be extraordinary. I intentionally surround myself with it, and seek out opportunities to achieve it.  

My personal definition of an extraordinary person is simply someone who faces fear.    

A person who sees or creates an opportunity that scares them, and yet still goes for it, whatever "it" may be - big or small.  I don't care what it is, or if they win or lose.  I just admire them for daring greatly.   

These extraordinary people are obviously military and first responders, but they are also the shy student who runs for student body president, the grandmother who earns her black belt, the single mother who goes back to school, entrepreneurs, good samaritans - anyone who is faced with two paths and they choose the one that shatters complacency and is uncomfortable.  

I have learned that only when you do this do you feel fully alive.


I don't like the term "fearless". Fear is real and alive in all of us. I'm completely fascinated by it.  Over the past 4 years I have been studying it in my life and it is now one of my favorite emotions because fear separates the extraordinary from the ordinary.  

It is the secret to living greatly, but so many people are scared to unlock it.  

If they only knew what was on the other side...




This post is dedicated to my brother.