Don't Wait For Your Boss To Tell You What To Do

Sometimes you just need to go do something awesome. You need to burn the ships. Puff your chest out against an angry enemy.

You don’t need an excuse, an explanation, or permission. You just need to go do it.

If you’re waiting on a spreadsheet to make the case for you, or logic or peer pressure or precedent, you’re destined to living a life that is insignificant. Life sometimes demands that you throw caution to the wind and go do something unreasonably remarkable.

The truth is that anyone can almost make it. You can go a little bit down the path towards triumph. You can fake the right determination, repeat the same motivational “mumbo-jumbo”, and pretend like they’re trying harder than you really are.

But there’s a difference.

You know it. And history remembers it.

History remembers your weakness, your mediocrity — what you could have done with the heart of a champion.

Maybe it’s time we go back to being primal. Maybe it’s time to pick up a club and fight for duty and honor and a future worth living in.

Maybe it’s time to be a bad-ass. Like Tlahuicole.

Forever history remembers the unconquerable spirit of a unrelenting warrior. One man willing to lay it all on the line.

Your mission isn’t to grab sword and spear and club and lunge mightily with gladiatorial rage at the oncoming hoard. It’s smaller than that. Less life-threatening. More refined.

It’s just to fight for your dreams.

To stand up for you. To believe that you are worth fighting for. To work a little bit harder.

You don’t need anyone else’s permission to do that. You can be awesome all by yourself.

So stop waiting for your sign or your calling or even one more degree. Just be incredible.

Live a life that challenges what you think is possible.

It won’t be easy and a lot of times it won’t be fun.

But it’s worth doing.

So why ask permission to get started?