Eleanor Roosevelt quipped, “There is no experience from which you can’t learn something. [T]he purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer richer experience.” When this process started 1400 days ago I wondered aloud what I might gain from the experience. I learned that I have within me the discipline to do whatever I want so long as it means enough to me to put forward that Herculean effort required to do so. I am no different than anyone I pass on the street in the sense that great potential lies within me.
The 10 minute rule was a test to see if I could access of fraction of that potential, the way so many of us access strength, perseverance, dedication, willpower, etc. exactly when we need it. When I think about people who have ‘successful lives’ they are always the ones who can put their abilities to work even when it isn’t a matter of survival instinct. So, where do we go from here? The only way to grow as Eleanor Roosevelt suggests is to push ourselves to experience more and more often. I’ve decided to put together a plan that sets me back on the path I was on when the ‘Rule’ hit the web. I recognize now that I was trying to do too much too soon and with experience came a sense of understanding as to how to level up my life.
What comes next is a better me, because I will make it so. We all have that potential if we are willing to take it.
Some Thoughts:
- Internet connection is spotty, so these blogs are going to be a bit more sporadic than normal.
- There is something to be said about alliteration.
- I was going to post something insightful about what I learned about Developmental Students today but my learning, much like my internet, has been shoddy. The Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas is not shoddy. In spite of producing a vapid and undeserving heiress who is plainly reflective of everything I expressed a few days ago, the Hilton family can make one feel at home.