“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice
- and most important –
have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
- Jerry Porras Steward & Emery Mark Thompson, “Success Built to Last”

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*~* J-FACTOR *~*

If you didn’t already know it, I’m a confirmed “quote-aholic”. Quotes & affirmations…I collect them. They’ve helped me through some rough times, they remind me of who I am, help keep me centered, push me to go farther when I just want to wallow in whatever rut I’ve created in my own mind.

I love this quote. It ties in so beautifully with several of my own life philosophies, my mantras of “Live out loud on purpose” and “Live Deliciously”. If you are living in the shadows of someone else’s opinion of you, in the shadows of who others think you are, in the shadows of all that you are called to be and do, you are NOT living at all. You are wandering around the edges of your life, fearful of what you see which means you are fearful of who YOU are. Fear is a sin. So is not living the truth of you. I’m not talking about living the shallow end of the truth, of your authenticity, but the bone-marrow deep truth.

Don’t die with your song still unheard by the world. Someone somewhere is waiting on you to step into the pure, unadulterated authenticity of YOU, to fulfill your destiny so that they can in turn fulfill theirs. Don’t get caught holding up the line or forcing others to play a position that has YOUR name on it.

DREAM BIG.
REACH HIGHER.
LIVE OUT LOUD…ON PURPOSE.
LIVE DELICIOUSLY!

*~* J *~*