You Have One Shot At Changing Your Life Forever: What Do You Do?
What if all it takes is just one decision?
One day Anderson is ushered to a point of decision. One choice is all he had to make. One step separated him from a truly extraordinary life.
All he had to do was demonstrate his choice by swallowing a red pill that would immediately transport him into his new reality.
Anderson swallowed the pill, and immediately changed from the ordinary Thomas Anderson to Neo.
Neo is the kind of guy that gets the girl. He also got crazy abilities like flying into the ionosphere and fighting hundred men at a time.
I’m sure you remember this story from the box office smash “The Matrix.”
Just like Anderson, we all have that moment.
That moment of intermission — the great interruption; when we are summoned to answer to a call higher than us.
We are pressed in that moment to make a choice.
A choice to give up the ordinary and predictable for the extraordinary and unpredictable.
We are at crossroads. One way the mundane, the other the supernatural.
In that moment,
The weight of our destiny hangs on a single decision.
We must sacrifice.
We must let go.
We must die to our old self.
Our fate hangs in the balance, and our feet quakes.
It feels like the longest hour of our existence.
Yet, it is these moments that separate the heroes from the mediocrities; the wishers from the workers.
“Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. […] The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self-defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private.”- Dan Coats
Every truly significant man had his moment.
Interestingly, these moments do not make you; they merely reveal you to yourself.
On this great event, what you do will depend largely on who you are.
Would you be ready when your moment comes?
