As many of you know I have shared a lot of my views of what it takes to become successful, not only in business but life as well. In today’s post I want to share the two choices we face.

I wouldn’t be doing you justice if I didn’t share this from one of my favorite motivational speakers. I hope you take the time to let this post sink in and start being all you can be.

Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives.

The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less.

These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.

And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can.

To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.

To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all.

Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities.

Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?

Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings.

Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results!

And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before.

The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of whom and what they have become.

– Jim Rohn

The Two Choices We Face – Conclusion

So there you have, the two choices we face and we all face them each and every day. The only thing that has ever scared me is to grow old and look back and see that I never reached for being the best I could be.

Knowing that you settled in life for not pushing yourself to greatness would be haunting and it’s something no one should accept.