You can follow the crowd, do what everyone’s doing, think the majority thinking, operate the way everyone is operating, or you can run your own race, trust your instinct, be authentic, speak with your own voice, pursue your own ambitions and be your own woman or man, but you can’t do both. And yes, the outside might call you a freak or weird or eccentric, but what’s more powerful than being true to yourself?Forget about what other people are doing and how they’re thinking. Forget about how they’re living. I think a great formula for world-class is to look at what most people are doing and go in the opposite direction. And all that really matters is who are you becoming and how far you’ve traveled. As human beings, it’s really easy to beat ourselves up because we’re not at our mountaintop. Well, that’s the journey and process of world-class. It’s a lifetime pursuit, and you want to make the time to celebrate how far you’ve come in terms of your personal growth, in terms of your craft, in terms of your impact on other people and in person and in terms of the lifestyle that you’ve created.
