I’m stealing a phrase from Dr. Julie Gurner - “Crown Yourself”.
Decide who you want to be and claim it.
Don’t wait for a statue to be built in your image. Build the statue of the person you will become, and grow into its likeness.
Howard Stern called himself the king of all media and then people started calling him that.
Lebron James dubbed himself the king / the chosen one, and got that tattooed on himself as a kid. He grew up to be the NBA’s all-time leading scorer and arguably the greatest player to ever live.
Joan of Arc was a young shepherdess who convinced a Prince to let her lead an army.
When Muhammad Ali said “I am the greatest” he wasn’t predicting history, he was crafting it.
Very often we’re too shy to call our own shot - especially to say it out loud. We’re scared of failing in public.
We’re scared of putting a commitment out into the void and having the void stare back at us blankly. We’re afraid that we may truly be unremarkable.
But calling your shot with conviction changes the way you approach the game. It changes your confidence, your effort, and your certainty.
When you believe you have the mandate of heaven, you’ll ride into battle with the wind at your back. You put your truth out there, and you wait for the world to catch up.
People won’t see the full picture immediately - they won’t see the potential you can see in yourself. But to see it in yourself you must search for it and call it forth.
Plant a flag on your greatness and start building a moat around it before people are even aware the land mass exists. By the time they discover it, the fortress you’ve built there will be unassailable.
