One of my greatest joys in teaching is witnessing the "light bulb go on" for a student. It's that "Ah-Ha" moment we love to get when we're trying to figure out any of life's dilemmas. These eye-opening revelations can be followed by a burst of creativity or heightened performance that can make others sit back and say, "Wow." I call instances like these your MOMENTS OF GREATNESS.

Take Michael Jordan or Tom Brady for example, they seem to have these moments all of the time. Even sports heroes have to start somewhere, back in the sixth or seventh grade Michael Jordan had to have made a basket that made him sit back and say, "Wow!" This ambition to duplicate your finest moments is what puts people on the path to greatness one step at a time. The world's greatest athletes, artists, and intellectuals don't come out of the womb running 4-minute miles, or suddenly wake up being able to flawlessly perform Beethoven piano sonatas. There was a time when they too, were only having their "moments." In Michael Jordan's own words, "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. "

So, the next time you have a moment of greatness stop and figure out the why and the how. Then you can replicate your successes and turn your moments into many. You've got just as many hours in the day as anyone else, so why not be a star?