Sept 17/17
Have you ever created something and saw some results and then asked yourself now what? did you find that using your passion your success seemed easy?
As we experience life we will feel that once something is achieved it feels easier than at the beginning of our journey. At the beginning we see obstacles and have to talk ourselves out of quitting on this task. Well the good news is you have realized your success and the bad news is the even harder work now begins.
Over the last two years I had a focus on growing and with that growth I was integrating that into my work. I was seeing success and momentum was accelerating and then in one moment my job ended. At first I had a moment of this is not a big deal and I can handle this challenge with the tools I have learned.
I realized about four weeks into this new journey that reality just became tough. It was another two weeks after that of me trying to run away from this reality. The harder I ran the further away I was from starting my hard work to find my place. Then in one moment I realized my current path I was on would end up with me running out of time. At the time I didn't know where I would end up however I knew if I didn't change my strategy I would never get back to a place where I felt value.
That moment when I actually looked deep inside of me and asked what am I going to do is when that shift of mindset occurred. I realized that no one was going to help my succeed directly when I had my defeatist attitude of mindset. I realized great and successful people can only afford to surround themselves with others of the same mind set.
It was up to me to roll up my sleeves and get to work. So once you have experienced your success of your hard work prepare yourself to work even harder to push through your next valley. All the work you have done, you don't want to lose it because you will if you don't start to change your mind set.
I remember at this time I also had an ankle injury and wasn't able to run. I had trained myself for three years to get to my level of physical activity and I remember wanting to quit. I just happened to meet an individual who was an avid runner and encouraged me not too. Thank you for him I didn't quit and I just recently completed my first 10 km official run.
Yes the three years of training was hard but the moment to start again after the ankle injury was even harder. I realized initial success is easy by following my passion but long term success to overcome challenges is very difficult. I now have a higher lever of awareness and I am equipped with a new skill to push through difficult times.
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