{"id":3089,"date":"2010-09-27T03:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T09:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2010-09-26T15:59:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T21:59:20","slug":"you-don%e2%80%99t-really-think-anything-you-do-really-changes-things-do-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/you-don%e2%80%99t-really-think-anything-you-do-really-changes-things-do-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don\u2019t Really Think Anything You Do Really Changes Things, Do You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When we start out in life, we are curious, daring risk-takers. But over time, with the guidance of our fearful parents and the faithful, diminishing effects of education, we get in line.\u00a0 We finally see our lives as something small and insignificant.\u00a0 We\u2019re a customer, a number, a name, a statistic;<\/strong> someone to feed the machine.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve lived that way so long that we wind up at mediocrity.\u00a0 Mediocrity isn\u2019t just half measures or lack of commitment.\u00a0 Mediocrity is a world view.\u00a0 What it basically says is, \u201cWhat I do doesn\u2019t really matter so why does it matter how I do it?\u00a0 My marriage doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 It\u2019ll wind up a statistic.\u00a0 My children don\u2019t matter.\u00a0 No matter what I do, they\u2019ll wind up hating me.\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t matter because no one really knows if there is a God or what He\u2019s like.\u00a0 And if He\u2019s like a lot of the religious people I\u2019ve ever met, I think I\u2019ll pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is my call to all of my fellow renegades out there who have gone into hiding.\u00a0 Come out, come out, wherever you are.\u00a0 Let your light shine<\/strong>.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Jesus said. We’re light and salt, that people are to see our good works and realize that something bigger, bolder, and more daring is at work in our lives.\u00a0 How can they do that if they live small, mission-less, passionless, beige lives?<\/p>\n

One of the best things you can do for yourself during the 21st Century and the transition of the new economy, while house prices are low and unemployment is high, is to change your core belief; that one life matters and it can change the world.<\/strong> Think of the names of ordinary people: Martin Luther King, Jr., Bill Gates, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Babe Ruth, Bart Starr.\u00a0 I know, I am wandering, but you get the point. Names of people who have stood out from the crowd: that could be you.\u00a0 You can live a life that is memorable, that is truly amazing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amazing people do amazing things.\u00a0 Average people do average things.\u00a0 You know, average, broke, sick, addicted, miserable, lonely, angry – you get it.\u00a0 Amazing, happy, joyful, energetic, on mission, making tons of money, giving tons of money away: that can be you.\u00a0 But you have to believe fundamentally, at your core, that you can change the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we start out in life, we are curious, daring risk-takers. But over time, with the guidance of our fearful parents and the faithful, diminishing effects of education, we get in line.\u00a0 We finally see our lives as something small and insignificant.\u00a0 We\u2019re a customer, a number, a name, a statistic; someone to feed the … Continue reading “You Don\u2019t Really Think Anything You Do Really Changes Things, Do You?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}