Until it’s Enough
Even when you don’t have much, don’t be a loser instead be a tryer. If you have a purpose towards which you are slaving, it is similar to running a marathon. Before running a marathon, any trainer will inform you that you are going to hit a wall. There will be a time when your body is no longer burning fats, carbohydrates or proteins but is burning your muscles to keep you running. That is when you a hit a wall in a marathon. You are so overcome with fatigue that it seems logical to stop running. That is a tiring ordeal and you have to go another 15 kilometres to complete the race.
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Your movement and speed gets restricted, you fall short of breath, but to win it is so easy — you must not quit and must keep making progress. It’s the same with our careers too. Many of us hit many walls but the most important lesson for us is also the simplest lesson — just don’t quit yet. It’s like that Michael Jackson Song — Don’t stop till you get enough.
To go the distance is not easy though. It is a simple lesson but the one where most of us cannot do mainly because we are afraid of going to the darkness. When you train in the gym there’s a point when you are trying to finish a rep and you want to give up because you are scared of entering that zone which will be super painful. If you hear any athlete speak they will talk about how they’ve all trained their minds to go numb during that point. They’ve learned to tell the voice in the head that wants them to be comfortable and safe to shut the fuck up.
Hitting a wall is certain, but it is up to us to keep pushing even if it means that the space we are stepping into might take us out. Let me illustrate this even in business, there’s a point when you’ve used all the business funds and the only thing in giving another shot, is using your personal funds. Going to that zone could backfire but imagine taking the easy escape and bailing out so that you could settle. After you’ve walked away from your dream, at the back of your head there would be a nagging voice that you could have maybe used your money to pursue what you believed in.
Do everything you can to see your dreams and goals through. As long as those are your goals and not someone else’s goals for you or a goal that you’ve taken as your own but something that you know inside is not actually yours. Don’t live a lie. There’s no bigger waste of time than pretending to be someone that you are not. Don’t waste your time in a pursuit which makes you the second or third best and don’t spend your life just being part of a cool fraternity of people who do cool things. At the end of this life, people will evaluate you not based on how cool you were, or who you hung out with but on what you did for humanity. So go to the place where you shine the most and break through walls in that place.
