We all are. I believe so anyway. It all depends on your definition of remarkable. For some, it is a sales target, for others it is a sporting achievement. Some see it as a business growth thing and others as acts of kindness and charity.
My point is we are all remarkable and can do remarkable things; we just have to set out the parameters of remarkability - the standards by which we measure how remarkable we want to be.
Once you know that the rest is easy, well, when I say easy there is some planning, hard work and a little luck topped off with some good old fashioned motivation.
What would be a remarkable thing for you to do today?
What would you need to do to look back say your life was remarkable?
On Friday I saw something being done which was remarkable. Sarah Outen set off to go from London to London via the world - all by ‘Sarah Power’. Just to be really clear, she is kayaking, rowing and cycling round the world. The 20,000-mile trip will see her cycle across Europe and Asia and row solo across the North Pacific. She will then get back on her bike to cross North America before rowing home across the North Atlantic. Do you realise how few people have rowed the Pacific? Check out www.sarahouten.com
Rosi, my wife, and I went to see her off from Tower Bridge on April 1st, very apt some might say. We thought it was so remarkable we took our 2 boys out of school to wave her off from HMS President.
Think of all the remarkable things Sarah had to do to get to the start line. Training, both mental and physical, selecting kit, arranging sponsors, supporting 4 amazing charities, talking to the thousands of school children, route planning, getting support crew and PR people in place etc, etc and now she is only 5 days into a 2 ½ year journey ... remarkable.
For me, she is an inspiration; she is a catalyst to be my own kind of remarkable. The important thing is to choose how I want to be remarkable. I’ll never be her, do the same as her but I know I can be good at being me, in fact I know I’m the best in the world at being me.
How good at being you are you?
How great would it be to have that level of clarity and to go out there and to feel it, touch it, be it, achieve it, live it, grasp it by the horns?
Now, round the world adventures may not be your thing, it might not ‘float your boat’ (pardon the bad pun) but the thing about Sarah is she knows what is remarkable in her mind, what she needs and wants to do to be true to herself and her life.
Do you?
