Be Crazy.

Be crazy.
By Stan Thomas.

Do you know something? To achieve anything in life you need to be crazy. Stop trying to make sense all the time. Stop only looking to do what is reasonable. Why be sensible? You need to be crazy. That's the only way you are going to achieve anything in life. You have to be crazy enough to believe you can actually do it. You need to have people calling you crazy. " Look at that fool. He can't do that. Boy you are crazy. Girl you are crazy." you should say yes I am crazy. There is a movie about an olympian from the 1980s who won at the 1988 Winter olympics. The movie was called Eddie the eagle. Eddie wanted to be an Olympian every since he was a little boy. He wanted to get into the Winter Olympics to be a long jumper. The jumps can be anywhere from a 50 meter jump to a 90 meter jump. They come sliding down the ramp, next thing you know they're high up in the air. The jump is looking just as graceful and peaceful when they're up in the air. Then they hit the ground missing their Landing , tumbling violently until they stop. Sometimes they may break their neck and have to go in the hospital for a few months. When they get out they go and jump again. That's what Eddie did. He wanted to be in the Winter Olympics to win a gold medal so bad he just did not care about getting hurt. He had a dream of winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics since he was probably 4 years old. And that's how you got to be, crazy. By the way eddie the dreamer was at an Olympic Training field one day as he was watching the Winter Olympic team practice. Eddie watched as one jumper was at the top of the ramp. The jumper took off down the ramp and was flying gracefully into the air. When he landed on the slope he must have flipped a dozen times. When he stopped flipping and tumbling one of the team members ran towards him. He was hurt badly. He had to be carried out on a stretcher. There was a certain man there. He was a worker who maintained the field. He had noticed Eddie a few days prior at the field. He knew that Eddie had Ambitions of being a long jumper. The worker told Eddie while pointing at the injured long jumper. He is an experienced jumper. You have no shot. But that incident did not deter eddie any. He went for his dream anyway. To make a long story short the field maintenance worker whines up training ready to jump because he was a former Olympian himself. Eddie trains, jumps, breaks his neck, is hospitalized, and still ends up winning a gold medal, all because of his natural craziness. It's a good thing that he was not logical at all. Logic would have told him that he did not start skiing early enough in life to have a shot at the Olympics. If he would have listened at the logic of the naysayers He Never Would Have Made It. The moral of the story is that if you want to achieve something great in life you have to forget about being logical and just be crazy. The moment you decide on what you want to be and do and write your goals down, you will hear a voice asking you how are you going to do that. How can you possibly make this happen? The minute you hear a how to write it down as a step toward your goal. Write it as another thing to get done as part of what you want to accomplish. You are going to do it just write down all the things that bring a doubt and list them as steps to be completed. With enough thought you will stumble across the how to. In order to achieve anything great in life you have to be crazy. You don't have to be crazy to be average or do small things. But you have to be crazy to go after something big. The end