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    Be Great
    Be Great
    Be Great
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    Be Great

    By Alfredia Lee

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    Be GREAT by Alfredia Lee 

    We apply the word GREAT to popular music artists, celebrities, and political figures, but rarely do we aplly great to ourselves. Life's daily tasks can so consume us that we never take the time to fully capitalize on our inner-strength and potential. Through Be Great, emerging author Alfredia Lee systematically blends real world experiences with spiritual truths to create a motivational book that demands GREATNESS from the reader. Her life and faith create an engaging and interactive format meant to help the everyday person unlock and experience their existing inner-GREATNESS. Prepare to discover a well of strength and power that will guide you through any situation and help you to truly be GREAT! 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfredia Lee
    Release dateMar 19, 2021
    ISBN9781393982272
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      Be Great - Alfredia Lee

      Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. 

      Jim Collins, "From Good to Great"

      Introduction:

      GREATNESS is Waiting Within You

      As human beings in a world of mounting challenges and daily frustrations, we are constantly competing to reach the high mark of perfection. The journey towards success is a difficult road marked with many daunting tasks. Simply meeting expectations along the way is a trial. Achieving and maintaining greatness seems impossible.  We are taunted with deceptive images of the elite and talented: filtered social media posts, unrealistic reality shows, airbrushed magazine beauties, Hollywood red carpet affairs, and Star Couples of the Year photo spreads. Deep inside, we covet these lifestyles and dream of making them our own. We measure our greatness against an unrealistic barometer that covers up flaws and maximizes glamour. 

      Coveting the apparent success of others doesn’t give us the fulfillment or self-empowerment needed to cultivate our own unique greatness. Luckily, our personal great is always within us, lying dormant and waiting to be realized. This is true even when we can’t see or feel it because we are too busy coveting the greatness of others.

      Singer Whitney Houston captures this reality in her song I Didn’t Know My Own Strength.  The ballad paints the image of a person who learns to rely on the inner power they didn’t know they had. There is a hidden treasure inside of you that only you can tap into. You are great and everything inside of you wants you to be great!

      The constant drone of day-to-day life moves us away from striving for the level of greatness we’d like to achieve. I’ve experienced distractions that distanced me from my own personal great. I am constantly busy, wearing the hats of wife, mother, pastor’s wife, counselor, educator, and entrepreneur. Constantly channeling my energy in multiple directions at once can be overwhelming.  

      If you’re a woman, you may understand the instinctive desire to be a pleaser and caregiver. We care for our family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and community. When we get married, we spend our entire livelihood doing things to satisfy the needs and desires of our husbands. We are striving along the hard road to being great wives. We want to make sure the food is scrumptiously prepared, the home is delightfully clean, and that the husband is happy in every department. However, life doesn’t always allow for even that. Jobs, meetings, children, homework, and sports practices stand in the way of a homecooked meal. Fatigue makes grand nights in the bedroom a pipe dream.

      Sometimes, in our toil to be seen as great mothers, we transfer our expectations onto our children. We want honor roll students who exhibit the best behavior and manners. We want leaders who set the example in their communities and schools. There’s no way our children will make all the right decisions and measure up to dream standards on every report card. When our children grow into adults, we expect them to marry and have children, but it doesn’t happen in that order, or it doesn’t happen at all.  Life throws us curve balls so hard and fast that we never see the emotional pain, abortion, miscarriage, divorce, or affair coming. Life events don’t leave time and emotional space for setting and achieving lofty goals. However, we should still pursue our best selves, in spite of the circumstances.

      Truly, GREATNESS is always well within reach!

      The Definition of Great:

      great/grāt/

      When you read the definitions of great, you may have thought to yourself, This is perfection. No way can I be all of these things! In actuality, you should define greatness in your own unique way, by the measure of your own personal achievement. First rate for you may not be first rate for someone else. You should work towards honing the unique quality of strength, character, integrity, influence, and purpose that colors your life, which is something no one else has. You must go on the personal journey that Whitney Houston sang about, and discover the strength you didn’t know you had.

      A few years ago, I began a workout program with a friend. We discussed walking at least three miles on the track a minimum of three days a week.  On our first day out, we greeted one another, and began to stretch in preparation for our workout.  After that, I started down the trail with a brisk walk, but my friend started jogging. Puzzled, I immediately stopped and said to her, no ma’am, why are we running? 

      I thought you knew we were running, she said.

      It was quickly evident that the intensity of her workout was much different from mine. She worked out daily. I only worked out three times a week. Her personal best was three miles at a run, while mine was three miles at a brisk walk. Our comfort levels may have been different, but we both accomplished our personal workout goals.  She jogged and I happily walked! Both of us were satisfied because we were accomplishing our personal goals.

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