“Pick it up and when it falls again, apply more pressure on the picking”. These were my personal words that I ran with when I was an undergraduate.
Now let me explain this, if you have ever tried anything in your entire life and failed woefully but you still keep a positive mindset towards it and keep it moving then you have been in the picking business.
I know you get it now. Moving on to the fact of if I actually applied the above quote all my life? It is very difficult to know that as a man with a good vision and a goal, you’ve got to stay persistent and consistent. Human has been originally designed to try and watch it work out and if it doesn’t, quite trying. It will only take a man who understands persistency and consistency that will keep sticking because he knows that a whole lot will come out of it.
Will it always be easy as you keep staying and grinding? I think you know what the answer is. The most successful man on earth didn’t get to where he is today with just a single try. He might have given up something for it either his time or his immediate comfort. We always want to get things the easy way and I bet you, those easy ways will certainly be birthed out of societal influence and maybe peer pressure or from a place of not being contented.
Personally, I pledge to myself that I will uphold my above watchword and run with it. Time flew in and flew out leaving me with reasons to quit and try another better and easy way but I never gave in. I would have told you about the role of my father in making me see reasons of sticking and seeing the appropriate results but that will be for another day.
Let me leave you with this. As you walk out of that office, class, business meetings with some kind of discouragement, apply the right force to that passion you are pursuing and when it doesn’t give you your desired results, increase the force.
Don’t ever lose your momentum as you go through life’s journey because it will definitely not end well. Is very ok to go to bed feeling discouraged but can you make sure you sleep all of it out.
As you wake up to a new day, rise like the morning dew and keep shinning your way into the dark places of uncertainty because in there, you are going to find certainty.I hope you find this encouraging and uplifting.