Mastery - By Stewart Emery

Mastery in our career and consciousness simply requires that we produce results beyond the ordinary. Mastery is the result of going beyond our limits. For most people, its starts with a techinical excellence in a chosen field and a commitment to that excellence. If you are willing to make a commitment to excellence and surround yourself with things that represent excellence and pursue events and experinces that that become miracles your life will change. ( When we talk of miracles we speak of events and experinces in the real world that are beyond the ordinary.)

It is remarkable how much mediocrity that we live with, surrounding ourselves with daily reminders that tell us that the average is acceptable. Our world suffers from teminal mediocrity. Take a moment and assess the things that encourage you to remain average. These things keep you powerless, unable to go beyond the arbitary limits that you have set for yourself. Take your first steps toward mastery by removing everthing in your enviroment that represent mediocrity, removing your arbitary limits. Try surrounding youself with friends that expect more of you than you do. Didn't some of your best coaches, your teachers, your parents expect more of you?

On the path to mastery, erase any resentment that you have towards your masters. Develop a compassion for yourself so that you can be in the presence of masters and grow from the experince. Rather than comparing yourself and resenting people who are masters, remain open and receptive; and let the experince plant a seed within you - with nourishment it will grow into your own individual mastery.

Correction is important in power and mastery. You see, we are all ordinary. But a master, rather than condeming himself for his ordinariness; he embraces his ordinariness and uses as a foundation to build the extra ordinary. Instead of giving up, like ordinary people do, a master uses his ordinariness to correct his errors, which is essential in the process in attaining mastery. You must be able to correct yourself with out condeming youself or invalidating youself, accept the results and improve on them.

Correct, don't protect

So here it is! The full version. I tried to write it out by heart and I gotta tell ya, I peeked more than once! But! That is more or less the point! I shall commit myself to memorizing this and master it so that I can continue to apply it to my daily living. So this will be the last time that I put out the top sentences. I will now have to find something else to blog about! But till then! Thank you all for sticking with me and have a wonderful week!