Down and Out Route To Success

“Not for too long”

I’m going to use a personal example, only because I know you can relate. All my life, I was told not to push it. To not do something for too long. To not over-do it. My parents knew I would burn out. If I was on the computer too long, I would get a migraine. If I lifted really heavy weights, I would pull a muscle. If I worked 10 or 11 hour days in construction, I would get muscle strain in my back. If I tried to memorize everything the night before a test, my brain would be kaput in the morning. I burned out, I crashed, essentially I failed.

Sound familiar?

You get pushed down. You get hit. You fall repetitively. You fail over and over.  Yet, somehow, you never fail to get up. It’s something engrained into your character, your heart and your minds desire to constantly adapt and improve. Setback is only temporary. It may last a day, a week, a year, but it will always subside and something will replace it: Success

Down and Out

When you burn out from doing something. You’re being gets that much better at doing it. How about the time you got sick because you stayed up too late for a few nights. Yet, the next month you were up late four days in a row and turned out fine. Or what about the time you got a headache from writing at your computer for 6 hours straight. Yet, after getting 3 more headaches, your average writing time at your computer became the same as a full-time job – with ease. You will noticeably experience this at least a few times each month that you are able to perform harder, put forth more effort, dedicate more time to the things that you constantly burn out doing. In fact, this is actually the source of constant adaptation.

 

Stay Positive & Failure Is Friendly To Those Who Don’t Fight It

Garth E. Beyer

The Success Journey With Views That Never Cease

I constantly strive for success, whatever “success” may be. I typically leave it up to the reader to decide what “success” means since we all have a different personal definition for it. Although, I bet that we can all agree that success is a journey, it’s never a destination we will reach.

Unfortunately, just as you would burn out repeatedly going after the same thing in life, the “same thing” in this case is the success journey.

So why would you go after something so universal that can never be achieved and that clearly is not oblivious to frequent spasms of exhaustion?

Happiness.

Too often people ask what happiness is and think that as soon as one feels truly happy, that happiness disappears. Well, let me share with you a little secret, or rather a big secret… actually it’s the biggest secret about the success journey and happiness.

Happiness is the periodic result of your journey to success. The more you succeed in the journey of success, the longer the happiness lasts. That realization you have that you are happy and after, when you no longer are, that is the universe telling you to get going on your success journey again.

My Personal Story: I strive for success, constantly, and I go as hard as I can at it. I’m often criticized for it too because (and I agree with) the word success is too broad. It has no definition. What exactly do you want to succeed in? Regardless, I go at it, whatever “success” is to me. Well, after I go on my success journey for a long enough period, instead of continuing and burning out, I pull back and reap the reward for my work: happiness. And when my true happiness expires, the success journey begins again.

 

Stay Positive and Take The Long Road, You’ll Be More Happy You Did

Garth E. Beyer