Take it One Day at a Time...

No one lives in paradise. Utopia is nowhere. That's pure fiction. Instead, what’s our typical daily life. Conflicts. Problems. Challenges. Crisis. And those can cut across our domestic life, our work life, our families, our finances, our health and even our relationships both at home and at work. In a nutshell, we’re all on the same boat. Life is what it is.

In fact and in truth, some in the first tier of our communities could be grappling with problems hundreds or thousand times in magnitude and severity. While the typical peasant is too stressed where and how to prepare today’s meal for his family, that head of a huge conglomerate is pulling all strings before he defaults on a 500 Million-loan he’s unable to pay because revenues have nosedived by 95%, no thanks to this pandemic lockdown.

If you’re a fisherman with a rickety boat, would you rather remain onshore instead of ‘battling the fury of the open seas than endure the slow rot of the unchanging shore?’ C’mon, don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits. These are a pair of quotable quotes worth pondering.

So, how do you get out of all the mess you’re in now? Firstly, take stock things of things, identify each of the challenges at hand. Prioritize it and obviously, you’ll tag a higher priority for the most impactful problems. But hey, if at your very frontage, if it’s littered with minor and petty issues, those are the low hanging fruits you should grab as quickly as possible so that the ground gets clearer, your path gets less messier. The pecking order to fix things should be managed in a pragmatic manner and not necessarily in a theoretical and technical manner by simply resequencing the sorting from the worst issues down to the mundane.

Remember, our life in this planet is riddled with dark clouds, overcast skies, storms and other life-threatening challenges. And where’s the path to success? That path becomes visible and viable once we have cleared the messy ground of all the litters.

To make matters worse, there are one too many intangibles that would likely push you further deep into that quagmire. Envy. Wrath. Greed. Pride. And even all those all rolled into one.

And when it gets cleared, take that narrow and tricky staircase towards achieving your success. Your worst nemesis will be yourself when and if, you end up a part of the problem instead of being part of the solution.

As this one-liner goes: ‘There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.