When I think about sources of light, I immediately ponder the power of the Sun. I realize that solar panels across the world and virtually all of our processes of photosynthesis depend upon the Sun. The sun potentially has a foot inside each and every door. She is ubiquitous by nature.

However, when I think of taking a lesser light source, one that is relatively weaker in comparison, the results are surprisingly quite different. Take a laser for instance. By focusing light rays into the form of a laser we can cut through the hardest surface of any diamond. We can use sophistication and directed lasers to annihilate cancer cells.

We are all very strong sources of light. I’ve run into many people from many walks of life and from all the continents of this planet. I’ve yet to find one person void of some amount of light. However, I do find many of us, myself included, missing out on using the power of that light we hold within. The difference we could make in the one life we have complete stewardship over to influence often gets diffused. We over expose and under focus - we spread ourselves thin across every project, every idea, every opportunity we can find.

If we would emulate the laser a bit more, if we would use a few of our strengths and the majority of our attention to being appropriately focused on what matters most to us, there is no dream, no vision, no ideal we can’t cut our way toward.

In the end, I believe the satisfied individual is more likely the one who persists toward a few grand ideas rather than trying to posture themselves over every possible acre of almost every opportunity that comes their way.