Life has no STOP Button

 Life has no STOP Button

If there's something that sets apart our lives from basketball, boxing and athletics, the latter will offer you a timeout, a half-time break and even in boxing, round-breaks every three minutes.  Not in life though.  Once you get out into the rat race we are all in, life becomes a non-stop grind that will ground to a halt only if either you reach the pinnacle of life or you hit rock bottom that's beyond resuscitation.

Andre Gide, the French Nobel Prize winner in Literature once said: 'Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.  Justin Bryant articulates it well enough @ https://selfmadesuccess.com/man-cannot-discover-new-oceans-andre-gide-2/.  Oh, this hits us hard because it accentuates that human fear from getting out of his comfort zone.  At the Forbes piece @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/02/05/six-fundamental-human-needs-we-need-to-meet-to-live-our-best-lives/?sh=7b67185344a0, psychologist Abraham Maslow defines the hierarchy of human needs.  But over time, life's basic needs evolved.  

Thing is, there has to be a goal post, a timeline, a deadline.  Unless you set a marker on that target destination, very likely you will fall short of your goals.  Not because you're incompetent but more likely because you are that human stereotype who would slacken when things are slackened.  And Charles Trivett went further @ https://www.coburgbanks.co.uk/blog/candidate-tips/11-habits-to-become-successful/ where he rattles off what it takes to be successful.  

Now, try scouring from East to West, tap on the expertise of Life Coaches and most of them will sing the same tune, i.e. you gotta do all these and that.  But have you heard of someone counselling us with a long list of DON'Ts ?  Take it from Zdravka Cvijetic @ https://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/30/13-things-you-should-give-up-if-you-want-to-be-successful.html and it's a long 'GIVE UP' list that includes giving up unhealthy lifestyle, give up short-term mindset, give up playing small, give up excuses, give up 'fixed mindset', give up on that 'magic bullet', give up perfectionism and give up on saying YES to things that are not aligned to your goals.  Let's bring it on, dude.📌📌📌