How To Set The World On Fire

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Be who you were created to be and you will set the world on fire.

St. Catherine of Siena

There was a time when it was considered good and sensible to accept one’s lot in life with grace and gratitude. A time when if your father was a servant, it would follow that you would be a servant, and your son would be a servant.

These days, we tell ourselves that we can be whoever we want to be. Some folks achieve their dreams, many don’t.

I wonder have we set ourselves up for failure and ultimately, a life of misery because of it?

Just as with any stream of contemporary thought in any given time in human history, when we examine our ideals over a long period of time, we discover that the pendulum has swung from one extreme to another.

So I find myself thinking it best that the pendulum rest somewhere in the middle.

That it doesn’t have to be completely this way or that.

That purpose can be found in this way AND that.

That any person using their unique gifts can set their world on fire; no matter their station in life.

~ HUMP DAY CHRONICLES ~

That Thing You’re Meant To Do…

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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine

If you’re like me, there is that one in-your-face aspiration  that keeps coming back to nag at you.

You know what I’m talking about?

It’s that thing  that makes you clench your jaw until your teeth hurt.

It’s nerve wrecking!

Sweat pours from your temples and you can feel, and sometimes even hear,  the blood rushing through your veins.

You’re just too unsure about going there.

And maybe, like me, you think, “Why don’t I just do it? Why am I caught in this continuous loop?”

Like me, you may feel the urge to ignore it and walk away from it.

That never helps though, does it?

It  always seems to find you again.

I think when this  happens we’re supposed to learn something.  And until we learn that something,  it comes back to remind us over and over and over again.

When we finally learn that something,  the nagging magically goes away.

Right?

Or maybe, finally, we’re simply just doing what we’ve always been meant to do…

~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~

What’s nagging you?