But most people consider a hero someone who rises to the challenge set before them. A hero is an ordinary person that can face extraordinary circumstances and succeed. Someone that faces an emergency and comes through shining.

What happens when every situation is turned into an emergency? What if every task that you are faced with is elevated to PRIORITY NUMBER ONE?

You end up diminishing the importance of each real emergency. You devalue your level of being able to rise to the occasion. After all, if you have already risen to one occasion, and another follows right behind, you are already up there. No need to come back down to rise up again.

If every task that you deal with is an emergency or high priority, then the real priorities are lost in the mix. People will bring you low priority items, and be forced to elevate them, just so they have a chance.

You will eventually burn out. You will exhaust those around you. You will lose focus and selectiveness.

You are a hero, but even Superman needs sleep.

What you don’t see is anyone taking a stand. You don’t see anyone offering a solution. You don’t see anyone trying to fix the problem.

You need to be that person. It is a frightening concept. Being the first person to step forward is always a dangerous event. But someone has to lead the way.

Very few people are qualified to take the first step, and you are in their ranks. A revolution begins with one person. That person shares an idea, an ideal. That concept rings true and mind of someone else. Soon, they join in and help spread the word. Overtime, the message spreads throughout a majority of the people and the world begins to change.

It has happened before. History is bombarded by stories of brave men and women that dared to speak up when the world was set against them.

You are not the squeaky wheel that complains about every small problem, because you understand that sometimes, things are broken. But when injustice place the world in a dark shadow, when people around you see hopelessness, when nothing can be done, you will raise your voice. You will rise up and fight. You will lead the way.

You have a voice.

When that happens, you get flustered and frustrated and walk away in disgust.

You played baseball or softball right. Remember the first lesson about fielding grounders? Stay with the ball.

Wait, the first rule was, “Keep your eye on the ball”. Then, “Stay with the ball”.

Either way, stay with the idea. Let it be rejected, for now. Find out why it didn’t get put through. Tune it up and tweak the details.

Then push it back through. It is a great idea, it just needs some grease on the wheels. If you do not stick with the idea, you will see it rolling out under someone else’s banner a few miles down the road.

At that point, all you have is shrugging shoulders and a pathetic, “That was my idea” on your lips.

For some reason when you face off against the asshole, you turn into a blithering idiot. You argue over the stupidest thing. You raise your voice. You pump sweat from your armpits like you were a water treatment plant. You begin to spit when you talk. You flail. You…

You… become an asshole.

How is this transformation made possible? How can someone like you, intelligent, witty, good looking, funny, and one hell of a dapper dresser, turn into the garrulous, mundane, argumentative, peice of shit you have come to hate so much in life. You act like being an asshole is contagious.

Being an asshole is not a contagious disease, it is a disease that feeds on weakness.

You have to be a strong person. You have to be a bigger person. You have to realize that eventually karma does pay off. You also have to remember that an asshole feeds on confrontation. By turning into the festering sore on the back thigh of humanity, and screaming and shouting at an asshole, you give them exactly what they crave. You feed their pathetic ego, and drive them to follow along the same course.

Assholes are a cancer on your life and they should be cut out. Immediatly and without prejudice.

If your asshole is the boss, find a new job.

If your asshole is an employee, fire them.

If your asshole is your significant other, become single (quickly).

You don’t have to be an asshole to succeed. You just have to steer your ship around the assbergs in life.