I Challenge You to Be An Original

If you look around at the people you interact with each day--especially in a well-populated city where you cross paths with an ever-changing crowd-- you will notice that there are really, simply only two types of people in this world.

Don't bail on this post already, thinking it's cliche and you know where it's headed. Instead, I want you to read this next sentence twice:

There are only two types of people in this world, the first type are those who are forging ahead in their own direction, creating their own story and their own journey....the second type are people desperately seeking to mimic the lives of the aforementioned individuals, constantly shape-shifting and pretending to be something different than what they are.

Okay, go ahead and read that again, team.

Now, take a second and evaluate...do you believe you are more like the first type of person described, or along the lines of the second type? 

There is no right answer--we are all on different journeys discovering things in our own time. There IS, however, a right direction to be headed in.

We spend so many years of our lives...through first learning how to be social in grade school, to the gossip ridden years of junior high and high school, to the tumultuous social environments of college, and beyond into much of the corporate world....comparing ourselves externally. We size our looks, our ideas, our intelligence, our worth, our everything....up against someone else.

It's human nature to compare, contrast and evaluate; it's how we interpret our world and our place in it. 

Here's the thing, though....it's an endless cycle of you comparing yourself to your co-worker, who's comparing themselves to their sister, who is comparing herself to her roommate, who's comparing herself to the trending actress, who is really just being a type 2 person to fulfill whatever they think the public wants them to be.

I know, it's a confusing tid-bit of information to process. The bottom line is, if EVERYONE else is pretending or trying to be someone else, where does this dog-eat-dog cycle end?

I'm glad you asked. It ends with YOU.

I challenge you to break a link in this ego-filled chain.

I challenge you to OWN your story.

I challenge you to create your own journey.

I challenge you to be an ORIGINAL.

I challenge you to start this now, today, by taking action. The longer you hang around as a "type 2" person, the more difficult the journey to "type 1" will become. Don't waste another day trying to be someone else.

DO YOU, and DO IT WELL.

-Cassie Taylor
Founder & Coach

OLLI Fitness

"One Life, Live Infinitely"