Good evening steemians,
I hope you guys would like to gather around, have a cup of coffee and reflect with me.
I hope everyone is doing well. Holding on to new years resolutions, working towards your goals, striving towards your dreams to make them into a reality. Making time to be with your loved ones and most importantly having a good time. And perhaps embarking on new adventures.
...I personally have been having a hard time moving forward working towards my goals. Always busy grinding away, stressing out, but rarely being productive in some meaningful way and not making significant leaps. Sometimes feeling like your efforts are not making a difference. Just spinning your wheels in the snow. It wears on you and feels defeating. It's so hard to turn around and appreciate the great strides that have been taken thus far. It's sometimes reassuring when someone admires the steps you took to get to where you are now. Your journey might even inspire them to start their own ambitions.
Working away with grand milestones in mind like gaining new certifications to enhance your career, getting a better job in your ideal profession, getting your first house, pursuing a master's degree. These are grand milestones and thinking about them all can be overwhelming. Even taking on one of them will demand so much commitment! It'll test your patience, your frustration, pull at your tears, cloud your mind with doubts. Doing your day job and conjuring the strength to do more is challenging. So many times I come home from work and I need a pot of fresh coffee just to even look ahead of me to take on the next thing.
I really don't know what I have to do to get motivated. To work towards my goals, feel fulfillment and most importantly be happy. Maybe it could be as simple as going to the gym after work. However, time is the enemy and there is only so much one can do in a day. If I'm not studying for my own certifications I feel like I'm wasting time and my work experience. Coffee and grinding away isn't the answer. Balancing what I'm doing isn't the only equation. Balancing against time is the real problem everyone has to face. Solving this equation could make you successful, determine your happiness or can break you and perhaps your relationship with your loved ones. What's the point of accomplishing so much if you're standing alone… And you only have memories of what could have been…?