Moments Beyond the Usual

 “Sometimes, it only takes one decisive day to get the life you want, but it takes a whole decade to be ready for that one day.” — Orange Book 🍊

It will take something unique, authentic, and competent in you to bend fate into your favor. I assure you — I implore you — it can be done. Not only because others have done it before you and are doing it as we speak — but because you also have the basic conditions for extraordinary performance: time to practice, awareness to focus, and the heart to persist.

Remember — everything you have experienced until this moment has shaped you — and remember too, that we come from completely different backgrounds. And though the classroom and society’s strategems group us into inauthenticity for half our lives, still:

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

Find these moments — capture them — journal them — and understand them. Those moments of happiness, of clarity and wisdom — they are the actual building blocks of the life you pursue.

Gather all your pain and victories and use them as fuel and tools. Your background is uniquely yours because your future can be uniquely yours — if you choose to:

Study while they party.
Save while they spend.
Plan while they wait.
Believe while they doubt.

And do this consistently. You need not become a robot of concentration or a dull, serious person. But you must awaken that untamable, resilient, brave spirit within you — the Godly and Angelic voice in your chest — and listen. Spend your time wisely, intentionally. That’s how you begin to deserve success — not through perfection, but through persistence and purpose.

Because truly — it only takes one decisive day to get the life you want, but it takes a whole decade to be ready for that one day.
Or more... or less.

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