OK, so you know when you’re cruising along, hitting traffic
lights with ease, there are minimal cars on the road and your road trip seems
to be going along swimmingly. And then, all of the sudden, a traffic jam of
biblical proportions halts you in your tracks. Yeah, that happens, trust me.
As much as I’d like to believe it, this journey can’t all be
about sunshine and rainbows. At some point, the storm clouds are going to roll
in and there is going to be a serious traffic delay that causes me to rethink whether
or not I should stay the course. Now, depending on when this stall takes place will
dictate how much of an introspective conversation I will need to have. If the
delay is merely miles outside of my destination, I think it’s a no-brainer that
a few extra minutes sitting in traffic is no big deal. However, if there is a
major road closure right as I’m starting out? Well, then it’s time for me to
seriously analyze what I want to accomplish.
Throughout this journey, I really don’t know if I have made
it clear that this task is not easy. That was the impetus behind this blog.
Knowing it’s not easy, knowing that it takes a little something extra to
achieve was why I wanted to write everything down and put my story out there.
There were plenty of times I wanted to quit and maybe plenty of times that I
almost did, but I realized that the quitting behavior is what I’d always done.
And isn't the clinical definition of insanity doing the same thing over and
over while expecting a different result? If you want something you've never
had, you must choose to do something you've never done. To me, that is the
polar opposite of insanity.
Deciding to quit is nothing new for people. Deciding to
succeed, there’s where we tread into unexplored territory. So, when you come up
on your traffic jam, decide if you will take the same, tired way back home or
venture on the road less travelled. The fork in the road is before you, and it is
up to you to decide which way is going to take you to your ultimate
destination.
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