Never quit! I don't care if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and it seems like the world is conspiring against you. Get up! Get out! Get Done!
The world is not meant to be easy. It is meant to be brutal. It is meant to shape us into better Humans and show us the difference between surviving and thriving. How many times do we just not feel like doing the things that we had decided to do? And then, after we pressed on anyways, wondered why it was such a struggle to get started?
We have the advantage and disadvantage of being able to assign meaning to the events that occur in our life. You know you have done this when the words, "it was meant to be" escapes your lips. Animals, do not have the cognitive ability for this type of imaginative creative storytelling. So why do we? Is this the first hint that maybe we are something more than just flesh on bone driven by animal instinct. (Notice the period and not the question mark at the end of the last sentence.)
The Will to become more than what we are is not found anywhere else in the world except the Human psyche. Flowers do not grow extra hard. Animals do not do anything that is beyond ensuring survival....all except us. We don't just build a shelter, we build a skyscraper. We don't just hunt and gather some food, we tend to large farms and herds. And how do we do this...we don't quit.
We fail. We fail again. We fail again and again and again. Until one day it happens. We succeed. We get there because we never quit. If the Human species gave up at the first failure, that would be it for us a species. No skyscrapers, no farms, no herds, no Humans. I wouldn't be here today trying with all my literary might to convince you that you are so much more than what you believe yourself to be.
So this is it. This is my message for today. Explore the out reaches of what you think is possible and do not be afraid to fail. Failure is the first step to know that you are growing and is necessary to get to the moment of success.
The world is not meant to be easy. It is meant to be brutal. It is meant to shape us into better Humans and show us the difference between surviving and thriving. How many times do we just not feel like doing the things that we had decided to do? And then, after we pressed on anyways, wondered why it was such a struggle to get started?
We have the advantage and disadvantage of being able to assign meaning to the events that occur in our life. You know you have done this when the words, "it was meant to be" escapes your lips. Animals, do not have the cognitive ability for this type of imaginative creative storytelling. So why do we? Is this the first hint that maybe we are something more than just flesh on bone driven by animal instinct. (Notice the period and not the question mark at the end of the last sentence.)
The Will to become more than what we are is not found anywhere else in the world except the Human psyche. Flowers do not grow extra hard. Animals do not do anything that is beyond ensuring survival....all except us. We don't just build a shelter, we build a skyscraper. We don't just hunt and gather some food, we tend to large farms and herds. And how do we do this...we don't quit.
We fail. We fail again. We fail again and again and again. Until one day it happens. We succeed. We get there because we never quit. If the Human species gave up at the first failure, that would be it for us a species. No skyscrapers, no farms, no herds, no Humans. I wouldn't be here today trying with all my literary might to convince you that you are so much more than what you believe yourself to be.
So this is it. This is my message for today. Explore the out reaches of what you think is possible and do not be afraid to fail. Failure is the first step to know that you are growing and is necessary to get to the moment of success.
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