Can you conquer the world?

I recently read something that I think will change my life yet again.  This is really funny.  Not funny ha ha, but funny how God and the world works.  In my last Oprah magazine, there was a page of little magnets with words on them that you could separate, put on your refrigerator and make little sentences or statements.  I thought 'what a cute idea--I'll use them to post little messages to my husband'.  So I separated them, put them up and put together my first message.  This is what came to me as I scanned the different words.  "Can we conquer the world?"  I thought it was cute and would spark some conversation.  I soon forgot about it, left it on the refrigerator and moved on to the activities of life.

A day later, my daughter forwards to me this free e-book called "A brief guide to world domination, how to live a remarkable life in a conventional world" by Chris Guillebeau.  Coincidence huh?  I think not.  First of all Chris is a gifted writer.  I couldn't put it down and had to read it in one sitting (it's not that long).  I'm actually looking forward to reading it again because I know I only absorbed half of it (I'm a fast reader and sometimes comprehension suffers.)  In any case, here's a few quick tidbits that I found remarkable:

11 Ways to be unremarkably average

1.  Accept what people tell you at face value.

2.  Don't question authority.

3.  Go to college because you're supposed to, not because you want to learn something.

4.  Go overseas once or twice in your life, to somewhere safe like England.

5.  Don't try to learn another language; everyone else will eventually learn English.

6.  Think about staring your own business, but never do it.

7.  Think about writing a book, but never do it.

8.  Get the largest mortgage you qualify for and spend 30 years paying for it.

9.  Sit at a desk 40 hours a week for an average of 10 hours of productive work.

10.  Don't stand out or draw attention to yourself.

11.  Jump through hoops.  Check off boxes.

Now, let's admit it, this is true.  If you hit all of these, it doesn't mean you are bad, but just incredibly average.  If you enjoy being average and love your life that way, it's all good and you are by no means alone.  You are in very good company.

If that's not good enough for you, Chris challenges you to think about the answers to the two most important questions in the universe.

1.  What do you really want to get out of life?

What is your ultimate goal in life?  If you could do whatever you wanted, what would you do?  What would you love doing?

I know we may all have pondered this before, but do we really answer it and use it to guide our life's decisions (the scary part)?  Read his free e-book, you will be inspired.

2.  What can you offer the world that no one else can?

Another good question that we all stumble on.  Yet truly, we all have something to offer the world.  At the very least, pondering these questions will teach you more about yourself.

So---how are these questions changing my life?

Seriously,  I haven't taken the time to really answer both questions completely, but what struck me was the realization of how little I need in order to fulfill my purpose.  When I think about what I want to get out of life and what I offer, it really has little to do with money or material things.  So if you hear from me in the future that I am selling everything and going off to a third world country to build houses or teach English (and learn their language of course), you know where it started!  Now to break the news to Mark and have that conversation about conquering the world!

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