For the longest time I sat passively back expecting the best in life, education, relationship, and opportunity to just randomly find me if I was “doing the right things.” This is a false and ridiculous notion, and yet a majority of us live that way.
Keying on our move from Ohio to California to learn and connect with the staff and leadership of Saddleback Church (without a job or anything) - a big transition occurred in my life from a lazy “getter” to a smart taker. Now my choices are intention and and specific. Not just any graduate college will do, I want to get into the best one I possibly can. I can’t assume that someone will notice my “inner brilliance” and want to start mentoring me - I had to ask .
[side note: taking a chance and asking someone who is legit to mentor me has yielded the greatest payoff I've ever seen. Not all have said yes, I even asked Seth Godin to mentor me once and he graciously replied but said he didn' t have the time (which was totally fine I was just impressed he would actually reply to my email).]
Check out the article below from Seth that is saying the same things. Life is too short to wait on the random and arrogant assumptions we have that we will passively get the opportunities we are looking for…
Get out there and take it!
A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best education they can get, pushing teachers for more, finding things to do, exploring non-defined niches. They take more courses than the minimum, they invent new projects and they show up with questions.
[From Seth's Blog: Getting vs. Taking ]
