Stop Preparing To Become Someone — Start Becoming Yourself
@Stop Preparing To Become Someone — Start Becoming Yourself The world already has enough copies. What it desperately needs is the original contribution that your life was designed to make. Too many young people are living borrowed lives—wearing borrowed identities, chasing borrowed definitions of success and measuring their worth against somebody else’s journey. We admire successful people so much that we sometimes forget to discover ourselves. Inspiration should open our eyes, not erase our identity. Know your strengths. Face your weaknesses. Build your competence. Strengthen your character. Learn from others without becoming a replica of them. Your background may not determine your destination, your present limitations may not define your future, and another person's achievement does not reduce the possibilities within your own life. You were not born to spend your entire youth auditioning for somebody else’s role. You were born with a life to build, a capacity to develop and a c...