How To Be Extraordinary

How to be extraordinary

 What can you wish for, and have your wish granted more quickly that you ever dreamed possible?

"I wish to be more humble, less full of myself."

And Life says, "DONE!"
(The variety of ways one can be taken down a peg or two is mind-boggling).

Perhaps you've known someone who started life in the back of the pack,
worked hard, rose to a higher position, acquired some of the finer things,
became a "success story"

...and morphed into a completely different person.

Maybe you were friends or coworkers, celebrating each other's
successes, and commiserating about the vagaries of life. 
Now, you're just a dot in their rearview mirror. 

That transformation isn't extraordinary.
It happens all the time, when the line between
"amazing accomplishments" and "my personal
awesomeness" becomes fuzzier and fainter.

Personally awesome people aren't extraordinary.
There are simply too many of them.

In fact, a successful man or woman
insisting that luck, connections or accident of birth
had nothing to do with their success is perfectly
ordinary.

What's extraordinary (because it's difficult and needs
constant vigilance) is rejoicing in success, while also acknowledging
that success is never completely free of luck, circumstance or generosity
of others. 

Humbleness (not to be confused with low self-esteem) is unusual enough
by itself, but coupled with prestige, social status, wealth or other trappings
of success…it’s extraordinary