“First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.” Epictetus
Good morning everyone is Iron Wil and I’m back with this weeks quote. Which is “First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do” Epictetus. And to me what this quote is saying is that first decide for yourself who and what you want to be … your personality, your character, um … your career. Those different factors that are gonna make up your life and then once you’ve made that decision of who and what you want to be … then go and do the work and it is work! It is work to create the person that you want to become.
You know it’s [been] said that when … um … Michelangelo was sculpting David, um … he said that all he did was chip away everything that wasn’t David, in that sculpture. And in a similar way, inside each of us is an amazing and beautiful individual. The question is do you want to create that person or do you just wanna … kind of follow along life and just kind of whatever happens. Um … and so we get the opportunity to choose who we want to become or allow life to choose who we become. The difference is your intent, my intent on who I want to change into … how I want to grow. Do I wanna become the best version of myself or do I wanna become a mediocre version of myself? What or Who do you wanna be?
One of my favorite Native American, legends or stories or things … is that you have two wolves inside of you, you have a good wolf and a bad wolf; or a light side and a dark side … and the question is asked of the young, which one will win? And the answer is … the one you feed. So if you’re willing to put good content, and if you’re willing to put in good information; if you’re willing to put in the work to become a better person …than that is who will win. That is who will come out of you is that better version of yourself, that better person excuse me that better person.
And honestly in my experience with people and with learning of myself I have found that doing that work does bring out a better person. A better version of yourself, not perfect, please remember not perfect. Um … but better and sometimes other people will see that version of you and sometimes because of when you connect or communicate or when you associate, they won’t always see that version of you. It just depends.
We should be willing to grow and change and pay the price if we want to have a better life.
And to be a better person. And one of the things that we need to give ourselves is grace for the mistakes we’re gonna make; and grace for the time or patience for the time it’s gonna take to grow and develop into that person. One of my favorite … um … I think it is a Chinese proverbs “The Journey of a 1000 miles begins with one step. And life is a journey … life is a journey and your destination, as Christian, is the next life. So, your graduation day will come at some point and you’ll be called home to meet your GOD. And what person, what version of yourself do you wanna be showing up there? what version?
So with that my friends, I hope that you like this video, if you do please share it. Go out and make a great day and make it a great week. Iron Wil out.
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