In his most recent article, “Are you an extraordinary person?” Steve writes about his upbringing and how so many external influences pushed the message that he was nothing and never would be anything.  Steve talks about how this message was so engrained in his mind that he just accepted it as a fact, and went on to live a life of mediocrity, never striving for me.  I mean, you are what you are, and can’t change it, right?

Well, Steve did decide to change what he was, and to become an extraordinary person instead of just an ordinary person.  In the process, he came to the conclusion that every person is extraordinary.  I believe he really reached the truth when he discovered that!

The thing is, for me, you should always strive to be more than who you think you are.  The other thing is to show people that you are more than they think you are too!  Imagine, the people who told Steve that he was nothing.  How many of those people know what he turned out to be, and how extraordinary he is?  He has shown them that his more than they expected, by being more than he thought he was.

In my own life, when I was in Elementary School my teachers said I was gifted.  By the time I was in High Schook, I was living in another area, and I was treated by my teachers like I was below average in intelligence.  But, I always lived my life to show people that I was more than they thought I was.  It always helped me achieve new levels of success in life too.

These days, I am self employed, and I don’t worry too much about what most other people think, but for those who are important to me, I still try to exceed their expectations of me.  There is only one downside to this, and that is that when you live this way, people’s expectations become quite high, and are not always easy to meet.  You have to work extra hard to exceed those expectations.

It’s worth the work, though.

I got a case of Dengue Fever.  Dengue is a tropical disease that is caused by mosquito bites.  Dengue is deadly in about 5% of those who contract the disease.  I was lucky, though, I lived through it!  Actually, it can take up to about 6 months to fully recover from a case of dengue fever, although after a month or 6 weeks, the worst affects of the disease have generally passed.  So, while I am not 100% recovered, I am feeling pretty good these days.  The time when I notice that I am still not 100%, though, is if I stay out in the heat too long, or if I generally overexert myself.  When I do that, I quickly lose my strength and become weak.  I am getting better as each week passes, though.

A killer Mosquito!

I have a new series of articles that I will be starting tomorrow here on my personal website.  I think it is an interesting and an exciting topic, and I think you will enjoy it too.  So, come back tomorrow and hopefully you will enjoy my new series – It’s a Business.

See you tomorrow?  I hope so!