Do You Have the Guts To Live an Original Life?

2023 Demands It!

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Guts Required

It’s 2023.

Do you have the guts to make this year a miracle year?

Because that is what it is going to take.

You no doubt have hopes and dreams.

These are legitimate.

But so does everyone else.

“I’ve had great ambitions and boundless dreams, but so has the delivery boy or the seamstress, because everyone has dreams. What distinguishes certain of us is our capacity for fulfilling them, or our destiny that they be fulfilled.”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Everyone wants something.

Everyone wants to be someone.

Why are you any different?

What makes you so special? So capable over the countless multitude?

You need an edge. You need an advantage. You need something to make you persevere and go forward.

Forget courage. Forget fortitude. Forget grit.

You need guts.

And guts, my friends, are lacking in our society.

The guts to stop questioning yourself and your abilities.

The guts to ignore what everyone else is saying.

The guts to begin.

The guts to fail at something.

The guts to invest in yourself.

The guts to create.

The guts to get back up and keep going.

The guts to endure the long period of uncertainty.

The guts to live an original life, something that you can truly call your own. This won’t be easy. Not in 2023. Not today. And certainly not tomorrow.

But if you have the guts and the goal, then you have everything you need.

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are you original?

“If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want.”-Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

People are many things but an original human being is not one of them. We are conforming creatures who have a need to belong. The need to be a part of the pack is something which provides safety but at the cost of your own originality.

This is never a fair trade.

Your original authenticity is what makes you truly remarkable, truly unique, and truly your own being. By giving that up, you are exchanging the best part of yourself for safety and comfort.

And this is no time for safety or comfort.

This is 2023.

A new year.

A year for many new opportunities and experiences.

A year for you to embrace who you are and more importantly, who you can be.

“The will to be oneself is heroism.”-Jose Gasset Y Ortega

If you have the guts to be an original.

This is more difficult than it sounds.

We think we are being original but we are merely conforming to the status quo. We are conforming to who we follow on social media. We are conforming to our peers. We are silencing the inner voice and we are refusing the call.

It takes guts to break free from all of this.

The guts to look your friends in the eye and disagree.

The guts to stay committed to your task while everyone else is out partying.

The guts to not get distracted by the endless news feed of life.

The guts to be an original.

The guts to grow!

“The growing person is an uncomfortable reminder of the greater human potential that each of us might realize if we had the guts.”-Tom Robbins

No one else can live your life for you. Others may make the attempt to manipulate and control your actions, but no one can live through your experiences and feelings.

You are a unique being who has never existed before and will never exist again.

Your authentic existence is your own and can only truly be defined by you.

If you have the guts!

“I may not be better, but at least I am different.”-Jean Jacques Rousseau

It takes guts to leave the shore

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."-Joseph Campbell

You won’t find your future by remaining on the shore. You will find safety and routine. Above all, you will find all the trappings of comfort.

And these trappings are difficult to escape. They lull you into a false sense of security. They prevent you from achieving your true potential. There is no need to have guts because there is no need to take action. There is no need for a risk.

You will be able to find everything you need in this land of comfort.

But you won’t find the future you deserve.

Understand that nothing extraordinary will ever happen to you unless you take action.

Unless you have the guts to leave the shore.

There is a huge world of opportunity out there. You can’t see it. But it is there for the intrepid individual who wants to set sail into the unknown and has the guts to take on whatever may come their way.

The unexpected.

The unpredictable.

The unknown.

Is that you?

Are you that individual?

Do you possess the guts to go after what you truly desire?

There is no better time than now. No better year than 2023.

People will say a lot of things about your sudden change. But I promise they won’t say that you are gutless. They won’t say you are cowardly. And above all, they won’t say that you played it safe.

And that is exactly what you want to be known for! A brave soul who is going after what they want, despite what others may think or say.

Go forward!

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”-Hunter S. Thompson