Getting to Where You Want to Be
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
“How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, they have to be willing to work for.” ~Jim Valvano
Jimmy Valvano was a college basketball coach most notably at North Carolina State University where he won the 1983 national title against the heavily favored Houston team. At the time thise who saw the game and, in particlar, the last few seconds of the game, remember his ecstatic celebration after the win.
At too young an age, he died from a form of glandular cancer before saying the quote above and not before telling viewers at the 1993 Espy Awards where everyone knew he was going to die soon, to laugh, think and cry every day and “Don’t give up its. Don’t ever give up.”
Let me add to Valvano’s quote.
It starts with courage.
You have to be courageous to continue on in the face of adversity, in the face of the naysayers, to single-mindedly dedicate yourself to the achievement that you want.
There will be people who tell you like in the Rumi poem:
Your old grandmother says,
“Maybe you shouldn’t go to school.
You look a little pale.”
Run when you hear that.
You will need to have the courage to stand in the face of life and persevere.
“But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I’m living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream
I dreamed.
“I Dreamed a Dream”, Les Mis
The dream in Les Mis was Fantine’s despair knowing her life was lost. You may pause on your way to achieving your destiny but remember when you run in place someone can catch you and pass you by.
Always move forward.
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