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inspiration T MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE DANCE FLOOR by Jason Shiri here is a breed of madness, a type of delusion almost, that consumes a man (or woman, no gender bias here) who is driven by his identity. Such an individual can never be content with anything other than the vision he saw the day he first believed. See, we can run from everything and everyone but ourselves and even when we have convinced everybody else that we have succeeded, our own nature will accuse us when we fall short of our dreams and aspirations. The first stage is to believe that we are worthy of the dreams God has put in our heads, this is the beginning of self confidence. The second stage is to let that dream become our identity, this stage enables one to disassociate himself from the masses and the final stage is to let that identity consume all things foreign, weak, lazy, fearful, procrastinative and under productive. Not counter productive, under productive. Our biggest vices are not the ones that keep us from going forward, our greatest vices are those that keep us from going as far forward as we can. They convince us that good is better than great, and so we settle. Afraid to let go of what we have to grasp what could be. Its risky, but it must be done. “even when we have convinced everybody else that we have succeeded, our own na \