live what you believe

you want your life to be an art, more than just a science.

you want your life to be profound, more than just mundane.

you want your life to be sacred, more than just profane.

and you say this to yourself and everyone you know, and you say this whenever and wherever you may go.

you say this, because you believe it. you say this, because it's what you want.

but saying and believing is not enough.

saying and believing doesn't make you what you want. it doesn't make you an artist, or profound, or sacred. any more than someone saying and believing they are an Ironman doesn't mean they are.

saying and believing is not enough...you also have to be.

saying and believing does nothing more than give expressions of what you want. expressions of words and thoughts. and as such, they have no substance, produce no reality, make no manifestation of what is really, deep within you, your utmost dreams.

and dreams that remain dreams means a life unlived. your life. unlived. dreams have to be given substance, reality, manifestation for life--your life--to be lived.

life, dreams, words. they have to have meaning.

and that means you making the commitment to find the challenges and to undergo the experiences and to learn the lessons involved in becoming what you want. whether it be studying working training in class in books in actions in miles in hours and hours and hours committed to hopes and ideals and truths and objectives and targets and goals. to grow and expand and rise beyond the confines of whatever it was you were before and whatever it is you are now.

because only then can you begin to understand the meaning of what you say and what you believe. only then can you begin to know the full magnitude of what it means to become what you want. only then can you begin to realize the true nature of the transformation you have taken to be an artist, or profound, or sacred, or an Ironman.

because sooner or later, you have to stop wanting to become the person you want to be, and you have to start being the person you want to be.

because sooner or later, you have to live.

you have to live what you say. you have to live what you believe. you have to live your dreams.

life, dreams, words. they have to have meaning.

and so do you.