Gary Wise, RBLP-T, NSI
Vanguard NJROTC | Wise Leadership Solutions | Retired Navy Command Master Chief
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Received this poem yesterday and wanted to share. Plain and simple truth spoken to inspire. PUT THE WORK IN.MediocrityMediocrity is a thief with soft hands.It doesn’t break down the door-It sleeps in, unnoticed.It makes its home in your smallest choices, slipping between your dreams and your excuses. It whispers, This is fine. This is enough. It doesn’t demand: it seduces.And before you know it, it’s everywhere.It’s in the way you show up-half-hearted, half-present, just skating by.It’s in your relationships, where love fades into obligation, where silence replaces effort, where connection is lost because trying feels like too much. It’s in your work.Where ambition is dulled by routine, where you trade your fire for a paycheck and a to-do list. It’s in your health, where every skipped workout, every ignored promise, pulls you further from the strength you once swore you’d build. But mediocrity doesn’t just live in individuals. It breeds in communities, in relationships, in entire systems. It’s the silent killer of greatness, the invisible force that keeps us small, that convinces us that trying harder isn’t worth the risk. Mediocrity is infectious.It spreads through culture like a slow poison.It’s in the way we praise busyness but avoid depth.It’s in the distractions we cling to, the scrolling, the consuming, the endless numbing of our potential. We’ve made it normal to settle, to coast, to be fine with fine.Mediocrity doesn’t just steal from you it steals from everyone around you.Your potential is not just your own: it’s a ripple that could changelives, if only you’d dare to rise.And here’s the truth: Mediocrity is a lie.It tells you that safety is better than effort, that “good enough” is a badge of honor, that avoiding failure is the same as succeeding. But it’s not.Mediocrity costs you more than any failure ever could.Greatness doesn’t come easy. It isn’t packaged, polished, or convenient. It asks for sweat, for focus, for the willingness to tear yourself open and rebuild.It asks you to stand in the fire when mediocrity offers you the shade.And greatness?It’s not just for your career.It’s in the way you show up for your people.It’s in the apology you give when it’s easier to stay silent.It’s in the effort you pour into love, the moments you choose connection over convenience.It’s in the way you demand more from yourself so you can give more to the world.The world doesn’t need more mediocrity.It needs people who refuse to settle, who demand excellence in their love, their work, their lives.It needs people willing to rise, even when it’s hard, even when it hurts.So burn the excuses.Break the habits.Push past the lie that safety is success.The life you want, the person you were meant to be, is on the other side of “just enough.”Step into the fire.And don’t look back.-Branden Collinsworth
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