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“There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”

Buck Rodgers

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Greatness is such a polarizing concept.

 

We equally diminish it by quickly attaching it to anything that could be construed as ‘exceeding expectations’ and elevate it to some unattainable height metaphorically that we go through some fairly absurd contortions to suggest anyone can be great.

 

 

Exceeding expectations is not only a low bar but a shifting objective <mostly because no 2 people have the same expectations>.

 

 

Unattainable heights is … well … actually good. It reminds me of Michelangelo’s the greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

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Where we seem to run into an issue is that we just can’t leave that thought alone.

 

We feel compelled to go out of our way to say “but.”

 

 

Greatness is a great goal. Greatness is an honorable goal.

And there are countless ways for anyone to achieve greatness. That doesn’t mean that there will not be great people who attain greatness of which most of us every day schmucks can only look at with admiration <knowing we could have never attained such a thing>. But it does mean that individual greatness is something to aim for.
Achieving it? We may not.

 

But does that diminish it as an objective? Not in my eyes.

 

 

Respect for the individual.

 

Commitment to excellence.

 

Rejection of mediocrity.

 

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Therein lies the stepping stones on the path to greatness.

 

 

And you know what?

 

 

If you place your feet on these stepping stones day after day on your journey through life you may never achieve the greatness that is lauded by the masses but you will have had a great Life.

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