Adhering To Our Internal GPS For Greatness

If we cannot just adopt a 'bull in the china shop' approach to realizing our own peculair capacity for genuis then what approach can we adopt? After all, we don't want to be a Stalin or Pol Pot--or even the office politicker who runs roughshod over his comrades and peers in order to make a name for himself in the company--do we? Can we realize our capacity for genuis and do so in a way that does not diminish others? Can we become truly 'great' in working and loving without having to undermine someone else and his or her capacity for unique genuis? I think we can. Rather, I know we can.

My deepest intuition tells me that we can be a true genuis in a unique way ( and that the Cosmos is even calling us to do so as this is being written) without our having to compete with others in order to do so. As everyone's voice... gift... talent... genuis... is unique there does not seem to be any reason to be concerned about what others are or are not doing. Let us just worry about the further unfolding of our won genuis. Let us just focus on what we can do to actualize our capacity for greatness--in whatever way it might manifest itself in this-here-world--and know that others may or may not do the same.

Does a Miles Davis ned to worry about a Charlie Parker? Does a B.B. King need to be concerned about a Muddy Waters? Does a U2 need to worry about the new 'up and comers' in the popular music field?

The larger story seems to me to be that in as much as we are concerned about what others are or are not doing we lose our own compass. Our internal GPS is ignored--which means that our compass for greatness is given up so that we can orient oursleves to others. The problem is that we cannot be 'others;' we can only be who we are!

At work we have unique qualities that will result in our realizing some degree of success (though how that success is defined may vary according to the person in question), but only if we attend to our gifts. Maybe we are the one who is supportive of others. Maybe we are the one who encourages our fellow employees in times of stress. Maybe we are the comedian who keeps the mood light when too much tension is inhibiting our collective greatness. Or maybe we are the one who 'holds the vision' so that it is not lost sight of in a mountain of ever-shifting details and circumstances. Whatever it is, we will be rewarded for it so long as we 'stick to our guns' and don't waver from what our genuis is, even as others seek to realize their own.