Binding Habits

“What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.”  - Bruce Barton

The quote above makes me think back to a high school Grammar class.  One of my favorite teachers in the world (Mrs. Walters) spent a great deal of time teaching the importance of using strong words when writing.  She tried to beat into our heads the fact that our words should come off of the page and demand to be reckoned with.

Bondage is just such a word.  Look at the impact it has in the quote above.  Dilemna….situation…predicament - none of these weaker words would have been even half as powerful.

The speaker went with a hard-hitting word that reaches out and grabs you by the throat!  The only bad thing is that his words aren’t only powerful…..they’re dead on.

Procrastination, self-doubt, shyness, smoking, anger, bitterness - they’re all forms of bondage.  I don’t buy into the thought that we can’t do anything about them, that we can’t free ourselves from them.  We can….we just don’t.  And there, lying in the truth of that thought, is the reason we’re still chasing our dreams rather than living our dreams.

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