Being number 1 is a real problem.  To be number 1, you have to be prepared to be belittled by numbers 2 through number 52.  You have to give up trying to be number 1 at everything, which will really make you number 43 at everything.  If you are number 1, and anything even looks like it’s wrong, here come those following numbers again, and this time, they’re out for blood, telling you about all the ways you were wrong.

What makes it worse, is that eventually number 1 will fall, because the thing that made number 1, number 1 will eventually be copied by numbers 2 through 102, and something more innovative will arrive, allowing number 1 to be susceptible to that one that started at number 103, but was willing to pay the price to go against the grain of numbers 1 through 102, and then they will jump to number 1.

And the former number 1 (now number 2) will be the first to belittle this new number 1.

Most people aren’t willing to risk everything to gain everything, only to lose it all again.

There are a lot of good reasons why we don’t like to focus, and why we think doing one thing amazing will limit our choices and keep us from utilizing the talents God gives us.

For instance, we believe that if we focus on that thing we’re the best at, we’ll miss out on opportunities to do other fun things.

Or we think we’re the best at more than one thing.

But we probably could be way more effective if we just learned to focus on and give ourselves to that thing.

Not only would we vastly improve our excellence if we worked on that one thing, but also we would learn to master that which we are attempting to focus.

Neither adding too much to our plates or doing nothing will bring us closer to accomplishing that which we desire to accomplish.

Yet we typically take the easier roads of doing the aforementioned exercises, because it’s easier, at times more fun, and requires less stress than not having to master that which should be mastered.

So we go about our days, trying to be good at everything we get our hands on, while everything we really want slips away.

Until next time.