#MondayMotivation #repost from Quest President @tombilyeu. I have a fascination with superheroes. But there is nothing childish about what draws me to them. They are the prototype. They paint a vision for the man I’d like to become. Not because I want to fight crime. I don’t. It’s not even that I’m obsessed with their physicality. I think the mind is a far more powerful weapon. No, what draws me to superheroes is their decisiveness. They are prepared to die for what they believe in. So many long to abdicate their responsibility for themselves. They want to sit on the sideline where it's safe. Let others decide. They want to be led instead of leading. When I was on the high school basketball team for instance, I was terrified that someone would pass me the ball. What if I failed? And so the paralysis goes. Fear, the great killer of dreams. Remember this - your decisions determine your life. Will you really allow others to define you? You are not a robot on an assembly line. Your job is not to “get through the day." Your job is to choose. To fight like hell for what you believe in. To pull the trigger when it's time. It’s all on you. And it’s not a tightrope. It’s a spider web. All tangles. A sticky labyrinth of dizzying choice. Can you stare at that complexity and still act? Find the path that is uniquely you? Or will you let that spider bite? In superheroes some see only a vision of inhuman perfection. I choose to see them as masters of their own fate. They remind me to act. To decide. To lead. My own life if no one else’s. They don’t make me hunger for “super powers”. They remind me to silence the voice of my lesser self - the one who cries for a hand to hold - and instead to be the hand that’s held. They remind me that strength is a choice. That I am the master of my own fate. Being a hero isn’t about being fearless or never falling down, it’s running at full speed even when you know you will fall. There is no price too high to pay for owning your own life. So don’t bow to fear - jump into the unknown. As only a superhero can.

questnutritionさん(@questnutrition)が投稿した動画 - 2015/08/04 04:05:36