DON'T BREAK the BANK

 

Enjoying the journey way too long...DON'T BREAK the BANK

Good Saturday morning! We’re all into a journey in life, like it or not. And we deserve to get immerse with it, enjoying every tick of the clock BUT, here’s the BUT. At most, your journey is akin to a long-haul flight. It was not plotted to span 90% of your lifetime. Otherwise, what will be left in the bucket by the time you are at the last lap, the very homestretch of your life? Worse, please DON’T ‘break the bank’! Whatever is left in your reservoir should remain there, and be reserved for upcoming turmoils, the real ‘rainy days’ yet to come.

This is our most common pitfall, one where we’re most guilty of [and I admit a mea culpa as well]. Often times, we get so immersed in our journey, ending up so mesmerized with the moment and getting stalled in that pitstop. Problem is, that pitstop ends up as your pitfall because you end up staying way too long in that pitstop which, by then, turns upside down into your pitfall. Remember, your long-haul flight does not end up at the portals leading to St Peter’s gates! Instead, that long-haul flight you’re onboard now is just one of life’s many pitstops. Get your feet off the brakes and pedal on the accelerator as soon as you get reawakened from that state of stupor.

On the other side of the coin, we sometimes look back after we stumbled, face down, on the ground. And that’s fine. What becomes unbearable is looking way back way too long, dissecting way beyond the buzzer, coming up with tons and tons of WHAT IF’s and WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN. Hey dude, wake up, you gotta get back on your feet firmly on the ground and continue your journey.

And what lesson have we picked up from this global pandemic? That in life, there will be always a ‘new normal’ that will unfold. What happens to your fate is now solely at the palms of your hands. Either, you got to ADAPT to that NEW normal, or ADJUST to it or, at worst, ACCEPT it at its face value and carry on in life, factoring that new variable as part of your EQUATION in LIFE.

Sometimes [and I’ve been guilty a few times on this], we end up so locked-in either with the journey or even our destination. What gets enshrouded and cloaked to the point of becoming obscure even from our vantage point is the outcome we all envisioned, the results we want to achieve at the latest, in our last lap, last leg and homestretch.

To cap it all, let’s go back to one of Steve Job’s enduring words: ‘Your time is limited. Don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary’.

Talking of ‘high speed data transfer’. Please DON'T get side-tracked and distracted by it. My lips are sealed.