REMEDY Mar. 2014 | Page 19

EMBRACING YOUR DIFFERENCE BY NASHON L. WALKER Embracing Your Difference is from my newest book titled: Shining in your Difference “You can never be the difference without first accepting your own. Don’t fit in, but be a stand out! Learn how to shine in your difference.” –Nashon Walker No More Fear Don’t be afraid to embrace your difference. You must always remember that your genius is located in your difference and it’s your genius that will bring you the highest level of success in life. There is something that you have been gifted to do and that gift is your genius. For some reason people have been conditioned to pursue what’s common and forsake that which is different. Whatever the style of clothing is or the style of doing business, we immediately jump on the bandwagon and try to make what belongs to someone else our own. Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not saying that wearing a popular style of clothing or duplicating a certain business style is bad. What I am pointing out is our intense desire to fit in with the crowd as opposed to being creative and brave enough to do something different and stand out. What’s At Stake If you forsake the difference inside of you, you will never reach your full potential. You don’t want to be like so many people who die still filled with gifts and talents that were never used. You want to be the person that gives life everything you have, so when you die there’s nothing left. The world is awaiting your difference. The world needs your difference. Imagine if Bill Gates wasn’t brave enough to release his genius and start Microsoft. Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, Inc., had not reached within himself and made a decision to shine in his difference. The world would not be a better place and they would have remained average. People live below average when they fail to discover the genius that lives on the inside of them. People remain average when they fail to maximize the genius that lives on the inside of them. Yet, people become great when they discover and maximize the genius on the inside of them. The world is awaiting the solutions that your difference will bring. Some time ago I come to this conclusion: I have a responsibility and obligation to give to my generation every gift and every talent that I have in order to empower and inspire them to reach for something so great, so magnificent, and so beyond themselves, in hopes that they will achieve the impossible and change the world in which they live. Embrace your difference today and begin the journey of becoming the best you that you can be. Give the world everything that you have inside of you so when you die there’s nothing left. Above Only, Nashon L. Walker remedymag.com REMEDY 19