Follow your desires

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Is it selfish to follow your desires? Absolutely not. What’s selfish is to expect those desires to be fulfilled for you without any effort on your part. What’s selfish is to expect everything you want to be handed to you. What’s selfish is to hide your true desires, to cover them up with mere tokens. What’s selfish, is to borrow your dreams from someone else, or to trivialize them to the point that they’re mere objects in the consumer marketplace.

Your most genuine and deeply held desires are what enable you to contribute value to life and to the world around you. They are not selfish. They are empowering, not only for you, but also for those around you. Those people who are most closely in touch with their true, driving desires are the people who build successful companies that employ thousands of others. They’re the people who develop innovative new products. They’re the people who entertain us, who make us think, who lead us, who teach us, who inspire us.

Indeed, your most sincere and positive desires will point you toward success. They will pull you toward success. They are yours for a reason. They are yours because you’re the person who is best equipped to achieve them. And in the process of doing so, you’ll add value to your world, to your life, and to the lives of those around you.

Everyone has the ability to make a positive difference, and yet no two people will do it in exactly the same way. When you follow your most sincere, deeply held desires, they’ll compel you to create value in your own special way.

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