Have Anything, Be Anything – Part 1 of 2

It is both simple and challenging to have anything you want, or be anything you want to be:

To have something you’ve never had, you must must do something you’ve never done.

To be someone you have never been, you must do what you have never done.

Are you sensing a theme here? (I am . . . .)

But so many people don’t do the thing they haven’t done. We (I include myself here . . . ), often do just enough. We generally do what is required, but little-to-no more. People talk of a fear of success; it’s really fear of change.

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