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Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalms 16:11

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MyersDaily
Friday, July 17, 2026

Everybody says "dare to be different" is the sign of success.

And things go viral when they splash our brains with something we haven't seen.

But I believe ordinary actually takes the greatest greatness of all.

It's harder to make something seem perfectly ordinary--ordinary like the perfect, immaculate creation of God--than it is to make something look unusual.

Achieving things to a level that makes them look ordinary is the hardest and greatest kind of accomplishment.

The highest quality, most real and best experiences, things, artwork, and everything, are things that look so normal that we don't even appreciate them as being anything special at all.

Like just to have a beautiful photo on a bright day that shows both the normal color of the sky and the normal color of your face at the same time.

It looks so normal when you see a photo like that, so ordinary that they don't even stand out as much as pictures where the sky is blown out into a colorless void caused by a breakdown of the camera's capabilities to capture such a broad range of brightness.

Yet, that ordinary photo showing both the sky and showing you, is the one that takes every ounce of skill from a photographer to make.

And it's the same in sports. The greatest athletes make sprinting or swimming or shooting look like a walk in the park.

Ordinary things are the hardest and greatest accomplishments that we can achieve.

Be good. Do something different.

Be great. Achieve something ordinary.

  Sincerely,
  Joseph Myers

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