Get Off The Mat And Off To The Next Challenge

 

Back in our High School days, a common dilemma of us students was getting to school every morning with NO tardiness.  And I remember our High School teacher gave a sage advice which was:  WHEN YOU WAKE UP, RISE UP.  These days, we'll hear this more  Get Off The Mat And Off To The Next Challenge.  WHICH leads me to really ponder if WHAT matters most in our life is a CATALYST, something OR someone that causes change to occur and indeed, having that 'change agent' can be damn helpful💥💥💥

WHICH reminds me of 'CATALYST GOALS' in life.  HOW I did it [the damn hard way in the past], I did set goals, crystal clear and concrete enough.  And once I embedded my commitment to it, those pre-set goals became my very CATALYST to move forward.  I then realized that many times in the past, I've been tricking myself WHEN I did set my goals.  Instead of doing WHAT matters, I worked diligently through my to-do list, ensuring that I remained 'spot on'✅✅✅

BUT there were times WHEN sometimes, my legitimate goals were seemingly left out.  The culprit?  I realized I wasn't doing 'GOOD PLANNING' at all then.  I seemed to delay executing this OR that task so there were days, I did stare at my pre-set goal and was ready to push it and slide to another week WHEN it suddenly dawned on me that if I did roll up my sleeves and do WHAT I needed to do, I could have accomplished WHAT needs to be done.  WHAT's my lesson here?  If ONLY I had a TO-DO List those days.  That would have made me more diligent.  And verily true, working with 'CATALYST GOALS' would keep me motivated and differentiating my positive self versus someone WHO incessantly procrastinates.  Mother of all ironies during those difficult times WHEN I was doing a 'balancing act' of my multiple deliverables, I was unaware that I got trapped!!!

As I constantly struggled then with one too many stuff on my struggling pair of hands, often I would end up overwhelmed and, YES, burned out.  SO HOW did I extricate myself from the mud?  I asked myself these most basic confrontational questions:

• Does completing my goals push me nearer to my 'future self'?
• Can I avoid that trap as I do the balancing act handling one too many with my bare hands?
• Have I plotted initially small steps that will lead me to the eventual bigger steps?  OR am I [falsely] carrying that superman belief?

Our takeaway:  I remember this perennial reassurance in the past WHENEVER I fail.  My mentor kept reminding me that each time I fall flat on my face, I am an inch OR foot closer to my pre-set goals.  Fast-forward today, I would agree and disagree with my mentor because WHILE it's true that I can be an inch closer to my goals, the flip side of things can lead me to another setback WHERE I will be an inch or foot farther back from my goals.  This all boils down to one's gumptions to keep going, GET OFF THE MAT AND OFF TO THE NEXT CHALLENGE❗❗❗