Avoid following the crowd. Be an engine, not a caboose. As Herman Melville wrote: ‘’it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation’’. Average people would rather be wrong than be different.
Conformity is the enemy of growth and satisfaction. Did you know you’re destined to be different? Dare to be different and follow your own star.
‘’Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?’’ (Frank Giblin). Ask yourself these questions. If I try to be like him, who will be like me? If am not me, who will I be? The more you develop your potential, the less you will become like someone else. As long as you are trying to be someone else, the best you can ever be is number two. Trying to be like someone else is self-defeating. One of your main purposes in life is to give birth to yourself. Depend on what the book of Romans says, ‘’God has given each of us an ability to do certain things well’’.
We can’t reach our destiny taking another man’s road. If you never walk except where you see another person’s tracks, you will make no new discoveries for yourself. ‘’Do not follow where the path may lead-go instead where there is no path and leave a trail’’ (unknown). You can’t be common. The common go nowhere. You must be uncommon to be a champion. Your responsibility is not to make yourself, but to make the absolute best of what you’re not made of.
Don’t compromise yourself… it’s all you’ve got. ‘’Almost every man waste part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess’’ (Samuel Johnson). Don’t let your life be a continual struggle to be what to be what you are not, and to do what you should not. ‘’The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else’’ (Walt Disney). You’re like a tree-you must put forth the fruit that’s created in you.
