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You Need to Choose to be Great in Order to Become Great
Greatness in your life is a choice and only you can decide.
Everyone was made for some level of greatness in their lives. I do not believe anyone was made to be a loser or less than. More often than not, people don’t succeed at something because they believe success isn’t in the cards for them.
Yet, I believe greatness is a choice.
Our greatness depends on our definition of greatness. And then it is a matter of making choices every day to become the level of greatness we desire and define.
How We Achieve Greatness
We are made to accomplish many things in our lives no matter who we are or what we face. Stephen Covey, the author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, puts it like this:
“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, and if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”
And I agree with him. We get to decide what is great. When we consistently make decisions over time toward what we want in life. Our conditions can be obstacles, but they…
