Carry on!

Sometimes all you wish for at night when closing your eyes is for tomorrow to bring you something that will make you smile, something that will give you the strength to overcome those storms raging in your life. Unfortunately, not all wishes come true and most of the time, things do not turn out the way we would want them to. Lately, I have been through some very tough times. It is just as if issues and heartaches agreed upon choosing me to be their best buddy. You know the one you want to see everyday, chill with, do stuff with and so one. Except that in my case, having the company of heartaches and personal issues is something I could have passed on but… things happen you know.

So like I said… it's really been tough lately and I have been going from disappointment to disappointment. In the beginning I was just you know trying to find ways to keep myself motivated but then after a while of things not changing, it got harder for me to see the positive side of things not working out. It started to get difficult to see the good behind having to fix your heart over and over again, crying with your head under your pillow every night and making sure every morning that you have a supply of Advil in your bag because your head hurts from the crying the night before. I started to fall apart emotionally and psychologically as I felt like life was beating me up and really all I thought I could do was lay down on the couch and have some ice cream in hope that it would soothe my pain away.

One day that I was ranting in my mind about all the things that went wrong, I realized that it was even more depressing and that I needed to change that attitude of mine and do something about all that. Other people managed to make things harder than the ones I have been through workout perfectly fine so why wouldn’t it be the same for me? What was I doing wrong? What wasn’t I doing? What should I or should I not be doing to be successful? I am a firm believer that God plays a big part in someone’s success but the remaining part that is also important is the amount of effort we put into being successful. Because see, God can help you and He will but if you are not doing what you are supposed to in order to be successful in whatever it is that you are doing, chances are you will not succeed. And even if you do, it will not be as often and as rewarding as you would want it to be. Following that line of thoughts, I went online and start looking for good habits to develop in order to be successful. Out of all the propositions that came out, I randomly chose this blog and I was just blown away by what I read. Basically, it says that the more challenging things get, the more you have to invest yourself and the more you invest yourself, make efforts and sacrifices, the more successful you will be.

It is easy to do things that are not challenging but the minute you encounter a challenge on your way, you should not bell out. You should confront it and find ways to make things work, to deliver instead of giving excuses on why things didn’t work. Shake things up a little bit, stop playing on the safe side and walk on the side of the road that is a little bit riskier. Most importantly, don’t let failure stop you from getting where you are supposed and meant to be: fall and get up. Understand why you fell, why it happened what you could have done differently and try again and again and again. Try plan A, if it doesn’t work try plan B, C, D, E, all the way to Z. Try until it works because that’s how you become successful. Keep running that race to success even though you are out of breath, even though you have had too many failures. A lot of people give up the fight too early and some other people fight and give up when they are just seconds away from winning it. And believe me there is not greater failure than to give up when victory is near. Next time you are about to give up on something you have worked so hard for, think about that and carry on :)