Another door from the advent calendar I filmed in 2016. First published December 2016.
Pick
"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself" (Seth Godin, Poke the Box)
I want to tell you a little story about me.
When I was a kid growing up, I was always one of those last kids to get picked. Picked in sport, picked in PE, picked in games. Because I wasn't the kid who was good at football, or good at rugby, or good at tennis, or good at rounders. Or at least that's what I'd been led to believe.
And so much of life can be focused on having other people pick you. Are you good enough for their team, or to be their boyfriend, their girlfriend, their husband, their wife? Are you good enough to get the job?
But maybe it's time you picked yourself. Because if you pick yourself, if you choose yourself, then it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. If you know what you want to do, what you're good at, what you're getting better at, what you're spending your time on, what you've decided is a must for you, then you don't need anyone else's permission to do it. You don't need anyone else's endorsement.
It's your choice. It's your life. Pick yourself.
The book: Poke the Box by Seth Godin.
Stop waiting to be chosen today, and pick yourself.
