Start With One Foot in the Door

Start With One Foot in the Door

Generally speaking, life in itself has been a fair play for everyone.  The good faith that always prevails is to level the playing field.  Whether we're referring to families or organizations, nothing differs.  We are all given EQUAL CHANCES at the starting line.  Parents would preach the best for their children.  Bosses at the workplace would encourage everyone to be on the same page.  In competitive sports, every single iota of detail is checked and rechecked.  See those WBA/WBC title fights where down to the gloves and the hand taping are checked by all protagonists to ensure there is fair play right when the bell starts the bout within the boxing ring.

Then, what ensues is that things seem to have happened so fast with one boxer peppering his adversary with a flurry of punches right on the early rounds.  And that leads him to gain that momentum to win the fight.  Does these scenarios look familiar to you?  Those times when you thought you had all the time in the world until you realized belatedly that it's ending up with you doing a 'catching up', rallying because you seem to be 'eating the dust from behind.  So, shouldn't we start with one foot in the door?

The illusion of catching up goes like this:  If I take a full day, weekend or week and abandon all the things I enjoy doing, I can get everything done that I feel guilty about not doing before.  Then I will feel better and everything will be complete.  The REALITY is that CATCHING UP NEVER ENDS.  There will always be more.  But these days, there are culprits that seem to be dragging us, pulling us behind.  You gotta detect these 'CULPRITS'.

Go to social media.  The more you post, the more you receive comments and reactions.  With emails, the more you send, the more you receive.  Last night, I was kind of 'cleaning up' my mails until I unearthed one mail after another.  That only delayed my machine shutdown by another two hours.  Now, if we are in a rat race [which we are], those two hours should be a major setback for me.  Time squandered, if you may.

Another irony that's causing us more to be left behind is this human nature that tells us staying up late to catch up on things will work against you, against us.  Why?  You just CAN'T sleep an extra three hours on a Saturday to make up for the sleep you lost the night before.  Instead, if you routinely go to sleep and wake up at a similar time, you will be more ALERT, more FOCUSED and more EFFECTIVE.  That's starting with one foot in the door by then❗❗❗