I Am Not Going To Die Here
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It had been a particularly awful day.
He had achieved what he thought was his lifetime dream. He had made it to what was suppossed to be, the top of his profession.
He had practiced literally for years, studied, and practiced more. Upon achieving the top of his profession he found all was not what he expected.
He worked long hours. He was underpaid. He was just another cog in the wheel. It was depressing.
Arriving home that one day he told his wife:
"I am not going to die here."
Andre Rieu now lives in a castle.
He is one of the most popular classical artists in the world. How much can change when you make the decision to change it.
I heard this part of an interview with Andre Rieu as I was passing through the living room. My mother was watching him on PBS (once in a while they do have something worth watching). I became an instant fan of Andre Rieu. Waltzes are not my favorite classical music but I admire Rieu as a man.
For me, that statement "I am not going to die here." represents a determination to change what may be wrong in life and make it what you expected it to be. To not continue down the same path when you know it is not going where you want. To not settle for less than you expect.
What Andre Rieu has done since that day is amazing.
He has his own orchestra. He lives in a castle. He is living life the way he dreamed.
For me, the statement above has become a source of motivation when I don't quite feel like putting in the extra work I need to do to go forward. If I am not going to die here, it is going to take some work to get out of here and somewhere I want to be.
How about you? Are you where you want to be? Are you doing what you want? Are you going to change it, or are you just going to die there?
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This article was very inspiring for me. I have been struggling to leave my mark in blogging world but my hard work always wastes away. I hope I don't give up.
@Hasan AKhtar from Web Hosting Guru: I would encourage you not to give up, but to keep trying to find what works. Find out the principles that make the popular bloggers successful and copy those principles.
One of the reasons I have moved my focus to a new blog is because I realized I was not doing something right. In short, I had no focus and no business plan. Blog about what you know that most people don't.
I know my biggest failure is consistent posting. Something I have noticed in nearly every top blog is frequent posts (at least at the start).
Was Rieu working as a musician when he turned things around or was he doing something else and transitioned to music? I'd also be interested in knowing what it was that he did that turned his fortunes around.
@Reg from I need help: There was something funny with the link in your comment so I re-posted it.
My impression is that he was a musician for another orchestra when made that statement. Most of my inspiration for this post was from a PBS interview with Rieu. I did some additional research from his own webpage which you can check out. Or wait till a local PBS station if having a beg-a-thon and featuring Rieu.
The interview is something I'll probably never forget as that statement really got my attention. It's a lot easier to sit around and complain about the way things are in life and just continue to be miserable, but when you make your mind up to change it, amazing things can and will happen.