The Silent Years.

We need to learn to
grow today
more than
to dream about tomorrow.

In other words,
we need to learn to
grow more
than we plan and talk.

Yes,
we fail to plan,
we plan to fail.
But we plan in order to help make ourselves
accountable
to the minutes and hours we're given -
to help us to be more effective in
whatever we're suppose to do.

Yes,
we talk and dream big.
But don't talk too much.

We grow not by yakking
but by
putting our minds and hearts
in whichever area we want to grow in.
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I've been writing about
how we cheapen our words
when we don't deliver them.

Now we know why
only a handful of people are paid
for what they say per minute
or write per word.

The value varies for
every person.

I'm sure we'd like ours
to be very expensive.

Let's recall,
words should ultimately
create -
not hype people [and yourself] up,
not stir false hope.

Words should Create.

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We dream about glorious results,
victorious endings.

We wish upon thousands of stars
of the day we accomplish works of great significance.

We secretly wonder,
when's our turn to shine in public;
to be praised and validated for our brilliance and talents?

It's not wrong to dream these.
It's only human.
In fact,
it's sad we're satisfied doing nothing significant in life.

But let's understand,
public praise, results, recognition, validation,
medals, trophies, titles -
the external explosion of anything magnificent

is only birthed after
numerous
Silent Years.

Years when we
do small things
as though they are great things;

Years when we
press on and work hard
despite little support from people
and even loved ones.

Years when we
progress,
even if we have to crawl
when we're weak;
we don't stand up,
mock and ditch the dream,
then walk away -
we crawl.

Years when we
readily learn,
keep on doing what is good -
even if nobody notices;
it's enough to make us happy.

Years of
faithfulness,
of dilligence.

Silent years
of never giving up,
of not looking back,
of fixing our eyes on the vision
that got us running from the start.

With that vision,
Faithfuless refuses to let
that passion perish.
It is preserved
from beginning to the end.

Silent years outnumbers Public years
because
the Inner Foundation
is a compulsory condition
to build a lasting, significant
Outer Results.

Who doesn't like glory?

But it can only come after
growing,
during the Silent Years.

If we don't like this Truth,
then we should ask ourselves -

why do we want glory;

what are our motives;

who does that glory serve;

what good does it do for others?

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