Stop mediocrity: think on how you can do it instead of you can't do it.

You don't have to see the whole stair case, you just need to take
the first step. -Martin Luther King

Go outside your comfort zone and be conscious of the people that you see: all wear uniforms. What does it take for them to wear uniforms? Students have a white polo shirt with a logo situated in the right corner of their chest highlighting their respective schools. Teachers come in variegated blue, pink, and red uniforms with a striped scarf in their neck mostly paired with a black skirts or slacks pants. Workers come in blue, white and yellow raiment but the most notable is men in black suit and tie. All are entangled with a quest for money in an everlasting thread of employer and employee relationship as long as civilized society stands.

Yet all the people you've seen are the same yet different: some are studying to find jobs, others are teaching on finding jobs, few are creating jobs. But whatever your affiliation in the following label, all come in good terms when you are going to set yourself above mediocrity.

Often when we are facing a task which seems we are not interested or new to us, we often close our mind in this popular talk: I can't do it. This statement closes our mind for the learning opportunity. We are not born knowing how to count numbers we start in a babe talk. Creating an opportunity for ourselves to grow is to take that essential step, the footstool of them all. Instead of closing our mind by saying you can't do it, open your mind by asking how can I do it? Don't take success for granted, it comes with a painstaking patience and perseverance knowing that success entails failure because success doesn't happen overnight. And failure will not always come as a failure unless, of course, you are expecting different results employing the same means. Einstein called it stupidity.

Don't let yourself fall in the pitfall of stupidity. You are meant for a greater cause. If you wish to see that greater cause happens you just need to reprogram your mindset. Here are the two things you need to keep in mind:

1. Doubt everything. Begin by applying Descartes' method of doubt: question everything even the fundamental underlying of questioning and the logic itself. Set yourself as a neutral being that does not fall to any knowledge set by mathematicians, scientists, and other great minds; even so if you cannot doubt the fact and the facet which it governs universally or associated with, begin to doubt its philosophical impact on your being and the humanity in entirety. The universal truth is objective, yet your conscious functioning is subjective. As Buddha has said, "but after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

2. Just be a believer. Affirmations are powerful codex which if injected in your program can produce a substantial effect. It is the process of turning word into flesh. But be careful on what you affirm to yourself for there are two affirmations: the positive one and the negative one. The positive one entails all the positive attributes and thoughts that you are continuously injecting consciously or subconsciously; while the other is its opposite. Often when you are out of reason and seemingly your doubt is of pedantry and life's drama is hard to ingest, you just need to believe because there are unknown knowledge out there. Science is not an all-knowing catapult of man. So there's a chance, a name for the unknown. Believe, just believe because the power it takes you to the other side is knowledge but sometimes the superpower it takes for you to scoop the chance is just believing.

As a popular proverb cuts in the annals of heart: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, it is notable to me and you that that single step is knowing how you can do it and not closing your mind the opportunity to learn great. What all it takes is to pick a brick every now and then to build a strong foothold of the morrow.