The Trap of Mediocrity

The "Mediocre Life"...a safe, uneventful and ordinary life. A life in which we are attempting to do something, but of what quality. The world will tell you that a mediocre life is okay, that it is an average life and that there is nothing at all wrong with that. The average life. After all, aren't most people living an "average life". The world looks at us and asks us to choose...a life safe and ordinary or the exceptional life. The exceptional life filled with adventure and excellence. Which will you choose?

The problem with mediocrity is that we too easily become trapped. Once we settle for the mediocre, the average, it becomes easier to accept it in all areas of our lives. The life we have settled for isn't really a good or bad life, it is just an average life. It is a lower quality of life that has trapped our dreams, chained them and then locked them away. This life leaves us with no inspiration, as we find that we are "drifting"without direction or purpose. Inside, we can hear our purpose screaming out to not let go, to shake off the chains of the mediocre life and choose to live in excellence.

In choosing to live a life of excellence, we will embrace a life of freedom. It is deciding to do our best in all areas of our lives, in all things, large or small. It is a decision to free ourselves of fear and the burdens of past mistakes. This life of excellence is lived by choosing daily to live at our best, as we rise above the "mediocre" that surrounds us. "Life will pay you whatever amount you ask of it, if you demand enough of yourself to give only the very best". It is our decision to progress or remain in a life of mediocrity.