Achieving Success: Living The Extraordinary Life br br I’m going to talk about living an extraordinary life. There are probably differences in definition that people have about what would be an extraordinary life, but I know for sure, definitely, there resides within you, deep in your core, the elements for you to live an extraordinary life, and they’ve come to you at times during your life. br br You’ve been on the edge of knowing what that would be. Or maybe you’ve had almost like a dream, something that you’ve wanted to do, but you needed to be practical. And there are moments in life when we need to be practical. We need to fulfill certain stops along the way, but beware of postponing the things you say someday maybe. Someday I’d like to get to those. br br Those are the elements, those little things that maybe seemed a little crazy or a little far out there, or they seem to you like something you’d do someday down the line, after you’ve done this, and this, and this. Guess what happens. I think you know about it. You develop enormous inertia. You’re going in a particular direction, and if you’re not including the elements that are you, that are a little off from just what your career idea was, and maybe you even followed good instruction from well-meaning people who said, don’t chase that career. Don’t take that major. That’s not going to lead you to good income. You’ve got to make a living. Those kinds of things are well-intentioned, but they become conventions in your own mind, and when you’re conventional, you lose the edge of authenticity. br br You lose the chance to leave your particular stamp on life, and guess what. When you’re leaving out the things that would leave a stamp on your life, you’re also leaving out the things that would influence other people so that your life could be extraordinary in more ways than just to you. br br Get back inside yourself and go for that dream. Resurrect what that is, and start to bring it into your daily life. Think to yourself on a daily basis, what is that dream? Oh, yeah! That dream is that I want to do this and that. And then ask yourself at the end of the day this question. What did I do today to fulfill that dream, to further that dream? Did I take action today in that direction? Even if I’m not just going to walk away from what I’ve set up as a career, did I go in that direction? Did I aim for that? Did I come closer to expressing what’s really inside me? Did I find a way to smuggle that in a little bit? br br But if you lose that thread of who you are in the meantime or you postpone it, the postponement can get to be indefinite, and you never circle back and pick it back up. And then you wonder, what happened to that? Where is that guy? Where’s that person? Find her. Find him. Because heshe is you, and it is the source of what will make your life extraordinary, deep, and rich for you and everybody you know.