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My Journal Entry
12/18/2023
My Journal Entry
To feel like you always need to be preforming is an exhausting and unrealistic measure to try to pursue. It would be like driving a car but only allowing the gas pedal to be full bore, all the time, no time to slow down. That might work on the high way, but what about when you need to adjust, pivot, stop for gas? You need to be able to adapt, adjust, turn smoothly (and safely). You need to be able to process when & where to make these adjustments. It’s like the tortoise and the hare. There is a time for head down, all out, energy. But if that’s the only mode you operate in, you will get to a place where your identity is in that “hustle and grind” mentality. You’ll be digging yourself a hole that’s not easily able to adjust from. If you believe the ONLY way to do something is one specific way, I believe you’re limiting yourself for what’s actually possible. Your actual making it more difficult, putting up these unintentional “blinders” that will cause you NOT to grow. You are speeding down the freeway at 85 mph, with only one goal in mind. Great but what about your family? Values? Health? Finances? No life won’t be balanced, and yes we need goals and focus. But the HOW we are executing is, makes a world of a difference. Please don’t go ask your high school friend if your goals are realistic or obtainable.. they need to stretch you. They need to push you past what you think you’re capable of. They are dreams. They are future goals. That means your present self is not capable of currently achieving the goal.Hence future. That is why you need to pay attention to HOW you are showing up today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year and determine, “am I truly doing what it takes to achieve it?” Am I being consistent and disciplined? Am I resting and being mindful? Have I shaped my environment to support me? Am I staying connected to God and praying for His will for my life? Am I doing what it takes? WHILE enjoying life and truly transforming as a person. Gosh this road is not black and white. It’s up and down, stop and go, light and dark, peaks and valleys. Happiness and tears in the same day. Crying out to God with “why?!” And also the ultimate praise and gratitude for all the blessings. It’s knowing you’ll never fully arrive at the destination. It’s a hungry for life. A determination to become all that you are capable of, while knowing you’ll never reach it. So, take a moment, be present and breath deeply. Because if you’re actually here for this ride, it’ll last a life time. It’s in Gods hands, have faith and go out there one day at a time to become the next level version you were meant to be.
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