Covered in brick dust

A brick wall. It could be seen as a couple different things. A wall of protection or an obstacle keeping you from getting where you want to go.

In his lecture titled, The Last Lecture (You can watch Randy here), Randy Pausch talks about the importance of living out your dreams and helping other people to find and live out their dreams. Interestingly, when he was giving that lecture he had just a few months left to live because he was in the last stages of pancreatic cancer.

The lecture he gave was a summation of his life and his resolve to live that life. It also served as a legacy to his kids - so they could watch it one day when they were older.

I read his book - very good by the way - and was also watching the video of his lecture. One slide that he showed really stuck out to me.

It featured a brick wall much like the one at the top that you saw. And in yellow words over top of the brick wall were these words:

Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things

So, how badly do you want it?

Do you give up too easily?
Do you say it's too hard, it's too difficult?
Do you become your own worst enemy instead of your own cheering squad?
Do you pound your fist against the wall once or twice, mutter something to yourself about how it can't be done, then trudge away to watch a rerun of American Idol?

I say get covered in brick dust. Break it down, run through it, take a jack hammer to it!

Another author calls it "pig-headed determination" which I like. I think it's about time we showed a little pig-headed determination and got covered with some brick dust.

How bad do you want it? Prove it.