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Soul
Survivor
By Greg Hickman
“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul,
impossibilities vanish.”
Jean De La Fontaine
Have you ever experienced the sky high
elation that comes from taking an inspirational idea
that fires your soul and then meticulously forging a
fabulous life adventure around it? Rather than allowing
that super sensational idea to shrivel and die on the
vine, you reached out and gave it a real go. Regardless
of whether you took that idea and hit a home run or
simply struck out, at least you had the courage to swing
for the fence. Win or lose, you just knew that as long
as you kept on swinging, sooner or later something good
was bound to happen.
There is not one person alive that
doesn’t have a burning desire to make his or her life
the extra special experience it deserves to be. And that
includes you! By reaching inside and stoking that
flaming need to succeed that burns ever so brightly deep
down in your soul, you immediately begin crafting that
lifetime of achievement you so desperately desire. The
moment something inside you fires you up from head to
toe, the impossible suddenly becomes possible and those
hopeless feelings you once harbored are instantly
replaced with a wide eyed optimism that knows no limits.
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to
welcome the ecstatic experience.”
Emily Dickinson
If you have never walked in this
rarified air of triumph and accomplishment, having taken
an idea whose time had come and made something truly
extraordinary out of it, you are missing out on one of
life’s most cherished treasures. The minute you push
aside all those troublesome feelings of doubt and
despair that weigh heavily on your heart and open
yourself up to the white heat passion smoldering down in
your soul, you unleash a fiery fury that can set your
world on fire.
There isn’t an obstacle on earth that
stands a fighting chance against a soul set afire with
passion, purpose and a single-minded will to win.
Whenever you fix your sights on something truly
remarkable and then set out to make it come to life, you
start a positive charged chain reaction that simply
cannot be stopped or slowed down. In a flash,
impossibilities vanish into thin air. Powered by a
determined spirit set ablaze by an unrelenting fervor
and zeal to make something super sensational happen,
there is virtually nothing you cannot achieve, nothing
you cannot accomplish.
“There is a great spectacle and that is the sea.
There is a greater spectacle than the sea and that is
the sky. There is yet a greater spectacle than the sky
and that is the interior of the soul.”
Victor Hugo
Can there be a greater spectacle than
the moment you latch onto an innovative idea; an
inspirational shot of imaginative insight so hot that it
instantaneously catches your heart on fire? There, with
a red hot inferno of inspiration building to the boiling
point and beyond, you get things going because, quite
frankly, you simply cannot help but get something going.
As the boiling momentum from within
begins to overflow and spill over the top, action
becomes the name of your game. At that precise moment
when the flame from within makes its way to the outside
where the action is fast and furious, there is
absolutely nothing that can hold you back any longer.
Suddenly, the way becomes clear as the path right
through what was once thought impossible is unveiled,
maybe for the very first time in your life.
“What the inner voice says will not disappoint the
hoping soul.”
Johann Friedrich von Schiller
By learning to open up and listen to
what your soul keeps trying to tell you — that you need
to begin fashioning your life around those things you
love to do — you can breathe a breath of fresh and
invigorating air into your hopes and dreams. Then
instead of merely hoping and wishing your life would get
better, you take control of the wheel as you assume
control of your life.
True happiness in life comes from
following your heart; from taking your God given gifts
and making those talents count for something special.
And it all begins with that inner voice down in your
soul. Your inner voice is talking to you, whispering in
your ear every minute of every day. Isn’t it about time
that you got off that merry-go-round we call life every
so often and listened to what it has to say?
The Bottom Line: When you
consistently throw your heart and soul into everything
you do, everything you do will radiate a brilliance that
people will definitely notice.
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