Raising the bar...

Okay, so AVATAR is amazing.  Seriously, go see it.  If you've been hiding under a rock check it out HERE.

My homeboys and I had planned to catch the 9:40pm screening last night.  Showed up at 8:00pm (to be safe) for tickets and it was sold out. Had to wait for the 11pm.  Figured we'd show up an hour early to line up--again just to be safe--and when we got there at 10:10pm the lineup was already 200 feet long.

Theater was completely packed 40min prior to show time.

My quip on twitter joked about most of the members of the Director's Guild of America throwing down their membership cards in exasperation 'cause AVATAR is so intense it makes you depressed because the proverbial 'bar' just got raised to what seems--at first viewing--near impossible heights.

Then--in terms of making me borderline depressed--there's this book I've been reading...

And, the overarching sense you get from studying the life of Warren Buffett (the World's richest man, most years...) is that 1) he was totally committed to what he felt he was supposed to do with his life from an early age, in a way that you can't ever match, and 2) he was so committed that he didn't live anything near a 'normal' life, and that's a tough one for you to negotiate 'cause you want to do 'well' with your life but you (probably) also want to HAVE a life and it doesn't look like he did.

So, when faced with Giants like James Cameron or Warren Buffett, while possessed of dreams of achievement of some sort of your own, what do you do?

Do you throw your DGA card down and walk away?

Do you give up any dreams of investing and building a life 'cause you'll never measure up to Buffett's standards and walk away?

Or do you fight the encroaching despair and find a way to humbly 'do you' in a way that's faithful to your time, place, gift mix and calling?

Can you and I find a way to turn the onslaught that is the achievement of these two guys into inspiration that we can practically use and, that said, can we find the moxy to actually use it?

Those are the questions I'm facing today.

And now to work...

T