Celebrate Who You Are

When someone reaches a level of accomplishment or stands up for something that many benefit from, the real beneficiary is the person doing the deed. When a black woman becomes one of the most powerful business women in America, when Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of the bus, when two gold medal winners raise their fists during the playing of their national anthem. They are the ones who benefit. Each one of them blazes their own trail and stands triumphantly on their accomplishment.

Each one uses their unique talents and exercises their right to maximize the potential of the situations that cross their path. Their accomplishments are perceived as being noteworthy and trail blazing. Paving the way for others to follow. Some take up the cause and find strength in being like them. They are looked upon as being role models or radicals. Icons, leaders in their field, innovators and social visionaries.

In reality, what they accomplished was for themselves, for their own personal growth, for their own obligation to be who they really are. These individuals arrived at their destinations by dealing in the present and looking towards the future. Their accomplishments become past tense when they occur.

These individuals don’t blaze trails, they sow seeds. Their accomplishments are but messages that they live eyes wide open and today accomplish what is required to ensure the future they envision. In a sense, they set the bar higher and higher each day. They do so by simply being who they are. For what they do is not beyond them, it is totally within them.

To that end they are not blazing a trail for others, they are by their accomplishments saying to everyone, find your selves by living today. Live today by releasing the past. Live today by breathing each breath. Live today and envision the future that will through your daily Life become reality.