Have you heard this line before? Incidently this brings me to remember the scene where Michael J Fox’s character in “Back to the Future” (BTTF) was challenged to a fight…what motivated him was to prove that he wasn’t a Chicken! (as a sideline: I truly love the BTTF 1-3 series, so much fun!!!)
There was once a similar situation I faced in Year 10 (many moons ago…) where a boy challenged me to a fight at the “Old Block” – a routine after school fight location. I was so pumped with adrenaline and I said YES!!! Thank God nothing serious happened as the boy refused to throw the first punch after much taunting from me. But what would have followed if I threw the first punch?
To DARE or NOT to DARE?
But seriously, we are all faced with little dares and challenges daily…and it does come in different forms and sizes. And let me tell you not all DARES are negative or bad. They can actually be GOOD for you…
We all love to live in a world of Order and (if possible) wanting little Change, as all these gives us a form of security leading to a tender/warm feeling of complacency = being happy at everything around us. Hence, we sometimes reject the need for Good Changes in our life.
So back to the DARE…it is actually good to take a little “Dare” from yourself or your mates time and again. This actually rocks our little honeycomb and allows us to Step Outside the Bee Hive (Outside the Ordinary)…into the Real World and perhaps magically step into a Defining Moment of our Life!
I coined this up recently D.A.R.E = Determined Action -> Results Extraordinary. Isn’t it so true…a DARE allows us to achieve Extraordinary Results and brings us to a New Place/Experience like never before. But it does require Determined Action!
If you are reading this and living a life that is feeling simply too ordinary, its not too late to take up a DARE and live life Full…As life is pretty fragile, here today gone tomorrow…I Dare you to Live your DREAM!
I’ll close with this, who in the world would have dreamt of an African American President-To-Be (Barrack Obama) say 5/10/20/30 years ago! But one man had that DREAM (Martin Luther King Jr)…and that may just come to past very soon! ; )
