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    The Mediocre Miracle
    The Mediocre Miracle
    The Mediocre Miracle
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    The Mediocre Miracle

    By Ritchie R Thomas

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    A book 37 years in the making to help those understand and gain clarity on where they are, who they are and ultimately, to help establish where you want to go and who you need to become to get there.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRitchie R Thomas LLC
    Release dateMar 10, 2020
    ISBN9780578605425
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      The Mediocre Miracle - Ritchie R Thomas

      Life Lesson 1

      Driving Without a Map

      Distractions

      It’s hard to do something while distracted and can be likened to running a race while worrying about others in the race. It would be like participating in the Olympics and losing, but saying, Hey, we have the best uniforms. We are distracted by Instagram, our family, Monday Night Football, College Gameday, ‘insert favorite celebrity,’ Netflix, Game of Thrones, ‘where will LeBron James play next year,’ the presidential election, a job you hate, etc.

      It’s almost as if we look for any reason to distract us from our hearts.

      Driving from Atlanta to LA (map scenario)

      I’d like to give you a riddle if you’ll humor me. Let’s say you’re driving from Atlanta, Ga and everything you’d love to have in life awaits you in Los Angeles, California.

      Your dream family scenario…

      Your dream house…

      Your dream spouse...

      Your dream career…

      Your dream business...

      Your dream financial situation…

      and anything else that you can imagine having your dream life, but you must drive from Atlanta to LA to live out your dreams, and of course, there are several stipulations.

      There is no map to help get you there.

      There is no GPS (No Google, Waze, or Siri) (:|).

      There is no cell phone, in fact, yours has just been destroyed, and the battery is dead.

      There are no road or street signs, so you cannot tell if you’re going North, South, East, or West or cannot positively identify which highway or interstate you’re on.

      Every time that you stop and ask someone for directions or guidance, they either give you the shoulder shrug response, as in, I don’t know what to tell you, or they send you in the wrong direction.

      There is the occasional convoy that drives by and you may follow them, but you’ll soon realize upon asking, that they may not even know where they’re going exactly (or what route they are to take to get there).

      There is also horrible weather on this trip. In fact, it is raining profusely or at least cloudy enough that you cannot see the sky.

      Of course, this is all a life scenario. Often it feels like we are traveling aimlessly, with no real destination, we have no real map, no GPS, no clear signs, our friends and family cannot necessarily tell us where to go and how to get there. In the event that they do offer advice or guidance, it may appear that they are giving us their opinion of where they’d like us to go, which takes us further off our true path. We may get lost by following the crowd and even if we do get somewhere, we may not feel truly fulfilled upon our arrival; and or more importantly, we come to realize that the ‘leaders’ at the front have no clue where they’re going, and the ‘followers’ just need someone to follow because they of course, are also lost.

      How do you find your North Star, your true north? How do you find your path in life, and ultimately find your purpose?

      It was 2007, and I just got out of the military after serving 5 years and 8 months (with an honorable discharge of course). I felt lost, alone, and had no real clue as to where I was going and truly felt mediocre. I felt like this for quite some time; maybe for 3 years at least, before I finally realized I had to create my own map. I created my own road map of where I wanted to go and had to dig deep to understand that I needed to essentially ‘re-build’ myself mentally to bring this road map to life.

      Of course, there were countless hurdles, obstacles, and walls that I perceived were there to keep me from going where I thought I needed and wanted to go. After much reflection, growth, and review, I now realize that those obstacles (often situations) were not there to keep me out, but to test my resolve, and to see how bad I truly wanted it. They made me fight harder, dig deeper, and more importantly, think and believe differently. To think at a different level and see from a different perspective, but also to believe and trust in myself at different levels of life that I find myself.

      The Great Recession of 2008 was probably the largest obstacle.

      "It’s not what you get, it’s who you become that is the prize…" ~anonymous.

      As a die-hard sports fan, it took me 37 years before I realized that my beloved Atlanta Falcons could win the next 10 Super Bowls and it would not benefit me in any way, shape, or form. However, since childhood, every American is told or subconsciously shown to obsess over sports, music, television, entertainment etc.

      Your favorite team could win the next 10 World Series...

      Your favorite artist could win the next 10 Grammy’s...

      Your favorite actor/actress could win the next 10 Oscar/Emmy awards…

      Your alumni could win the next 10 College championships…

      The Game of Thrones could redo the ending 50x times picture perfectly...

      How does any of this impact your quality of life in any aspect? Distractions.

      How does this consistently put money in your bank account?

      How does this improve your marriage?

      How does this help get you the promotion or close the deal?

      How does this help make you a better parent?

      This book is not about my journey; it’s about yours.

      "The journey is the destination," ~ Dan Eldon.

      Life Lesson 2:

      Get Out of Your Head

      Drop the past, learn the lesson, & move the $#@! On… Mel Robbins.

      Your parent’s story is their story. Their failures are their failures. Their success is their success. Their story has nothing to do with yours. Both of Michael Jordan’s sons were horrible at basketball. They are not failures by any means, but basketball (AS A SKILL-SET) was simply not part of their story.

      Your parents are not Superman or Wonder Woman. They’re Clark Kent and Diana...

      They’re human, and they screw up just as you do…

      They have made mistakes, and they will make mistakes…

      They have errored just as many times as you have, if not more...

      That doesn’t make them bad or evil people…

      It doesn’t make them a disappointment or a burden...

      It makes them human.

      They have a part to play in your story, a necessary part. Their role was to physically bring you into the world and raise you (and yes, I understand some folks didn’t even get that). However, even that may not have been a curse, but a blessing in disguise...

      A necessary struggle.

      I encourage you to try and embrace your struggle; everyone can relate to it. Its why people cry at graduations, it was never about the course works, homework, or exams; it was about the struggle. It was or is about your journey that helped groom you into who you needed to be. I encourage you to try and find some purpose to your pain. This has always been what we truly love about some of our favorite characters in the entertainment or sports industry:

      Their journey, their struggle, helps remind us of how we can conquer our own. It’s a never-ending reminder of how we can be the hero of our own story. Simply put, there’s power in your struggle, and that’s a powerful way we all connect at the human level.

      Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to, doesn’t mean it’s useless, Thomas Edison.

      For those who were raised without parents (death aside), would you have ended up just like them? The case in point – an alcoholic mother, drug addiction, just a bad parent, or a bad example of a husband or wife, etc.

      It hurts, but one lesson learned is that you have to love some people from a distance, and that everyone has a necessary lesson they have to teach you. It has

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