For the last few years in these columns and stories, we have doubled and sometimes tripled down on saying how important it is to chase your dreams as often as you can. We also said that you are going to fail, perhaps time and time again but in the end, the chance of you succeeding is almost a guarantee. The worst thing is staying in neutral and never knowing if you could have made it. I find that pure torture when you are capable of so much more.
Imagine my smile when at Alan Jackson’s last concert on June 27, he took a moment from the show and talked about his journey to being a super star from very humble beginnings in Georgia. He said he and his wife moved to Nashville and he gave himself five years to make something happen. If not, he would have moved back home and probably had a career of selling cars. “I thought that if I never tried, I would never know and I wanted to know. I reckon’ I’d give it a try.”
Powerful! I thought that if I never tried, I would never know. My goodness, we have beaten that drum on just try and give everything you have and look what can happen. Almost every person who is living their dream had at some point a very difficult question with themselves about going for it or staying put. They all went for it and their lives were never the same.
In the humblest tone a massive super star has ever had, Alan Jackson showed us the great American dream is still vibrant and alive and that you can be any and everything. You just have to get up and go.
