As the week winds down, Friday Cogitations invites you to reflect on the past, embrace the present, and shape your future through the lens of faith, hope, and your unique journey.
How Far Can You Go?🤔
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Hi there, Life's tough sometimes, especially when you want something great out of it. It doesn't just hand it over to you. When you have a dream or a goal, life seems to say, “show me how badly you want it”. It seems eager to test every part of your resolve and commitment. You want to create a solution that hasn't existed before, you want to replicate a business success story, or get to the pinnacle of your career and set a new record. I imagine life says, “they all say the same thing, let's see how serious this one is”.😂 So, how far can you go? I'm not referring to unthinkable effort, because what we need to do is often obvious. Stick with a couple of actions or activities for as long as it takes. Yesterday, I watched a YouTube short of an Olympic swimmer who won a gold medal for the tenth time. Something he said struck me, he practiced every day for a whole year, a whole year?! Most of us struggle to remain consistent after a couple of weeks even if the action we're taking isn't daily. But do you love something enough to do it every day or every week for a year without fail? I've been reflecting on how I waver in consistency doing the things I love. If a swimmer can swim every day for a year, holidays included, why can't I be more consistent? Most of us have an idea about what our goals demand from us. Why don't we do it then?
A system is your method of doing something, your action plan. Your routine, your activities, and frequency. How you spend your day, your week, that's structure.
Work can be fun if you love it, but even the work you love gets painful and sacrificial. Are you patient enough to stick with it through the painful seasons where results are quiet? On that random Tuesday when you feel down, will you still put in the rep? This second point is where I've been calling myself out recently, that's why it's today's topic. So when I ask how far you can go, what I'm really asking is how long can you implement a system and embrace the pain of working towards your goal? That's where you build capacity for the future you've envisioned. Alright, that'll be all for now, until next time. Osose Christabel. Question for you: What's one positive thing you've heard a person you admire repeat as their “secret” that you're yet to implement?
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Friday Cogitations
As the week winds down, Friday Cogitations invites you to reflect on the past, embrace the present, and shape your future through the lens of faith, hope, and your unique journey.
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