“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps you find yourself at a crossroads. And by gaining a sense of this, feeling its tug and gaining an awareness of gravity, do you regroup? Engage in a course correction? Some element of self transformation?
Consider how the mass of your collective thoughts, words and deeds have led you to this instant. How they came to impact oneself. Make you something. Leading you somewhere.
They all matter. And even now, in this moment, both they and you are still being shaped.
Taking all that you have been up to now and making you into what you are to become. The embodiment of all that is the best in you; character, excellence, perseverance and leadership.
Your intentions can finally and irrevocably become reality. A convergence of age, ability, experience. The confluence of discipline, desire and dreams.
In something altogether new. That will stand alone and the test of time. That will never happen precisely in this fashion ever again.
Long ago, you may have entertained the smallest germ of a thought. A glimmer of a dream.
At that moment, you decided. You chose a destination.
A path was needed. Direction determined. A pace to be set.
So you let go. Abandoned yourself, while exerting the will to expend yourself in all aspects of your being. Succumbing to a level of self- discipline that ultimately created this extraordinary circumstance.
Creating a singular vision, originating from a common perspective. Led by the thoughts we chose to dominate our life. Following the deep mental path we walked along and through.
Guiding us to who, what and where we always imagined.
...my temporary assignment. 