Precisely Acceptable
The way your life is right now is Precisely Acceptable to you. How do I know? Because if it wasn’t acceptable to you, then you’d do something to change it. Therefore it is, by definition, acceptable.
Acceptable doesn’t necessarily mean good and it certainly doesn’t mean it’s how you want it; it just simply means that it is a luxury and not a necessity for it to undergo change. Acceptable is dangerous because acceptable is synonymous with mediocre or convenient. Acceptable means just good enough to not make changes.
Therein lies the challenge and the call to become more self-disciplined. Self-discipline requires an ambition to move beyond what is convenient towards something that is spectacular. Self-discipline means you reject what is merely acceptable in lieu of striving towards a life that is marvelous.
Self-discipline is a calling to ignore the escalator and instead take the stairs.
See you in the stairwell,
Rory Vaden
Take the Stairs – Success means doing things you don’t want to do
December 27, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Rory,
I love your posts to your blog. You are always “spot on”.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Linda
December 27, 2010 at 7:53 pm
Thanks Linda.
Glad you like. I wrote it as a letter directed at myself this morning and then thought I’d post it to a blog. I realize there are probably some people who are in situations that are mostly out of their control but I think for the vast majority of us we accept things as they are. 
Happy New year to you too!
BTW I’m transitioning my blog over to http://www.roryvaden.com/blog so this will be one of the last times if not the last time I post here. You might want to subscribe to that RSS if that is how you hear about these posts. Best to you!