Bury Your Dreams and Drop the Baton, with Tererai Trent and Lewis Howes
Ideas, Thoughts and Quotes pulled from…
Awaken to Your Full Potential and Achieve the Impossible with Tererai Tent and Lewis Howes – The School of Greatness EP. 596
Bury your Dreams
Write down your dreams and bury them.
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I think when you want something so badly, when you have a vision to change your life, whatever you write down, it becomes ingrained in your thoughts and whatever is ingrained in your thoughts, it can be manifested. Because you mind and your thoughts and your being and your feelings, are thinking about that goal, that vision.
Tererai Trent
A seed, planted in fertile ground and proper taken care of – watered regularly with nutritious water, protected from too much sun and regularly checked for and protected against weeds and germs not sapping energy unnoticed – can prosper and flourish to become the blooming flower it was meant to be. The same goes for our dreams and our mind and thoughts.
Your dreams will have greater meaning when they are tied to the betterment of your community.
Tererai Trent
Drop the Baton
My grandmother grabs that baton of poverty, the baton of illiteracy, the baton of early marriage. She runs so fast with that baton. She hands it over to my mother. My mother grabs that baton of poverty, that baton of illiteracy. She runs with that baton and she hands it over to me. I never wanted that baton. It was not my race, it was not my relay.
Tererai Trent
The Great Hunger
And there are two kinds of hungers in our lives. There is the little hunger. The little hunger is all about immediate gratification, I want it now. How many Facebook likes do I have? […] How many book sales. How many friends, yes. But the great hunger, the greatest of all hungers, is hunger for a meaningful life in our lives.
Tererai Trent
I believe that without dreams, we are living a sub-par life. If we don’t have a dream to at least think about and just be on the path. It doesn’t actually, in my mind, matter if I achieve all of them, but to have them. To be able to go for it, is powerful.
Lewis Howes
Accessibility of Opportunities
There is nothing called lucky. I had opportunities, so the lesson for me is: opportunities.
If we give opportunities, lay it there for everyone to have access to their passion, access to whatever they want.
Tererai Trent
The Right Perspective
I’m not a victim, I am part of the solution. And I have learned to define myself, I’m the mistress and master of my own destiny, and I am refusing to let the past define who I am, and I’m also refusing to let the current challenges in my pathway become the narratives that shape my future.
I defied the rules of my father, I defied the norms of my culture, and I refused to keep silent about societal expectations that marginalise women and girls, to be submissive at the expense of their dignity, and I’ll never be silent. So, that’s non-negotiable.
Tererai Trent
Ubuntu
Happiness is temporary, but wholeness is permanent. So, the question should not be, “What makes me happy?”
Tererai Trent
Our oneness as a people, our ubuntu, which is the same, the essence of our humanity. I am because we are, since we are, therefore I am.
Links to follow up on
- Tererai Trent’s Twitter Account
- Tererai Trent’s Facebook Page
- Tererai Trent’s Website
- Lewis Howes’ Twitter Account
- The School Of Greatness Podcast
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