Scratching the Surface, is that enough ?
Have you in your lives ever reached the surface ? Obviously.
Have you did what needs to be done at the surface ? Absolutely.
Have you dived beyond the surface and did what needs to be done deep down there ? Probably, right ? And likely, rarely, for some of us.
Listening to Og Mandino, 'always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later'.
So what's the fuss here ?
It's the surface man, that's all and there lies the root of a big chunk of our failings, our failures.
Why ?
Because most of us would exert efforts right there on the periphery, on the surface. To this breed of so-so's, once they sweat, it's a milestone achievement already for them !
Really ?
Oh indeed, this is not a fallacy because we do witness this in our lives, even in our homes, amongst family members, amongst your closest friends BUT have you felt guilty about it yourself ?
There you go,
you got a real problem at the palm of your hands,
if you don't realize that most of the time you were sweating, you were just somewhere at the surface.
To write bluntly about it,
most of us [and that includes me in the past, especially during my early school days], we failed and we stumbled because after sweating over at the surface, we stopped, we got stalled, we got stomped, END, FIN [in Espanol & French], OWARI [in Nihongo].
To quote Jackson Brown, "If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure".
And that's it. We don't have to diagnose further how and why we failed. And this is what separates the men from the boys. This becomes akin to the parting of the Red Sea. And this is where we witness the greatest competitive sportsmen we ever saw and heard. And by coincidences, this recognized very competitive sportsmen in Michael Phelps [swimming], Manny Pacquiao [boxing] and Magnus Carlsen [chess]. Oh, let's add in this A-List the world's fastest man, Usain bolt whose sprint time of 9.58 seconds in a 100-meter sprint remains a record till to date.
If these names still don't ring a bell for you, let us quote the American celebrity, Oprah Winfrey, 'Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do'.
Have you in your lives ever reached the surface ? Obviously.
Have you did what needs to be done at the surface ? Absolutely.
Have you dived beyond the surface and did what needs to be done deep down there ? Probably, right ? And likely, rarely, for some of us.
Listening to Og Mandino, 'always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later'.
So what's the fuss here ?
It's the surface man, that's all and there lies the root of a big chunk of our failings, our failures.
Why ?
Because most of us would exert efforts right there on the periphery, on the surface. To this breed of so-so's, once they sweat, it's a milestone achievement already for them !
Really ?
Oh indeed, this is not a fallacy because we do witness this in our lives, even in our homes, amongst family members, amongst your closest friends BUT have you felt guilty about it yourself ?
There you go,
you got a real problem at the palm of your hands,
if you don't realize that most of the time you were sweating, you were just somewhere at the surface.
To write bluntly about it,
most of us [and that includes me in the past, especially during my early school days], we failed and we stumbled because after sweating over at the surface, we stopped, we got stalled, we got stomped, END, FIN [in Espanol & French], OWARI [in Nihongo].
To quote Jackson Brown, "If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure".
And that's it. We don't have to diagnose further how and why we failed. And this is what separates the men from the boys. This becomes akin to the parting of the Red Sea. And this is where we witness the greatest competitive sportsmen we ever saw and heard. And by coincidences, this recognized very competitive sportsmen in Michael Phelps [swimming], Manny Pacquiao [boxing] and Magnus Carlsen [chess]. Oh, let's add in this A-List the world's fastest man, Usain bolt whose sprint time of 9.58 seconds in a 100-meter sprint remains a record till to date.
If these names still don't ring a bell for you, let us quote the American celebrity, Oprah Winfrey, 'Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do'.
