WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AVERAGE
“Average” is what failures claim to be when their friends ask them why they are not more successful.
“Average” is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the top. Which of these are you?
“Average” means being run-of-the-mill, mediocre, insignificant, an also-ran, a non-entity.
Being “average” is the lazy person’s cop-out; it’s lacking guts to take a stand in life; it’s living by default.
Being “average” is to take up space for no purpose; to take a train through life but never to pay the fare; to return no interest for God’s investment in you.
Being “average” is to pass one’s life away with time, rather than to pass one’s time away with life; it’s to kill time, rather than working it to death.
To be “average” is to be forgotten once you pass from this life. The successful are remembered for their contributions; the failures are remembered because they tried; but the “average,” the silent majority, are just forgotten.
To be “Average” is to commit the greatest crime one can against oneself, humanity, and one’s God. The saddest epitaph is this: “Here lies Mr. and Mrs. Average—here lie the remains of what might have been, except for their belief that they were “average.”
(from “Developing the Leader Within You 2.0” by John C. Maxwell)
