Sometimes the place you are used to is not where you belong. You have to stretch, you have to motivate yourself and see beyond yourself.
As humans, once we attain a level of success, we want to plateau there. Once we have mastered a particular routine, it is hard for us sometimes, to see what needs to be improved upon. We should constantly try to evolve. We should always strive to be better than who we were yesterday. We should never be too comfortable with who we are, and where we are. We should constantly assess our progress and push ourselves. Internal motivation is key. We need to come to the realization that something needs to be improved upon first before we take the steps towards it. We should constantly strive to be better.
If there is nothing to inspect, there is nothing to expect. There is always something to improve upon.
Today’s achievement is tomorrow’s mediocrity. When we constantly strive to achieve better than we did the last time, it helps us stay in focus and not get too comfortable. Most of the time we limit ourselves. We fail to see the potentials embedded inside us. We sometimes feel we are not good enough, so when we attain an echelon of success, we feel it is a one-time thing and can never be improved upon. It is a lie. Every achievement can be improved upon, it only takes a greater determination than the last one.
Aim for the moon, and if at least you fail to reach it, you can land on the clouds.
Renewing our determination will always help us to push ourselves to reach our potentials and not buckle under the pressure that comes with it. It only takes the right approach and knowing what works for you. There is nothing too hard for a determined mind.
These two living footballing legends baffle me; Ronaldo and Messi. They have won virtually all the trophies in existence and they are even creating new trophies for them, hahaha. They have broken several records and they have created new ones that would only be broken by another determined mind.
After winning several trophies; both collective and individuals, you can’t help but feel, what is next? They let you see what’s next by being better than they did the last season or even the last match. They strive to be better and they were not comfortable. They recognized there are things to always improve upon. Did they miss a penalty in this match? You will see them improve on that the next time. Did they score a hat trick (3 goals) in this match? You will see them aim for 4 goals in the next match. What baffles me about them is, after scoring 3 goals and they miss a chance that could have made it 4 goals, they still get angry. Whaaaaat? Really? They understand there is always something to improve upon. We should never get too comfortable.
...to be continued...
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No matter what we have achieved, we should not be relaxed. We should have it in mind that there are still so much more to achieve, that the best is yet to come and that we need to discover what to do to get better in all aspect of life.
Absolutely. There are still many more lands to conquer and more heights to attain with more depths to reach. Thanks as always brotherly.
Your words are amazing. The crowd can not make everyone who can be successful. Those who can not, they lose their way. The examples of those you gave were really struggling players. They are going to record different day after day. Football World Cup a few days later Someone who supports Messi, who supports Neymar, who is supporting Ronaldo. Let's come, they'll do well.thanks for motivational speech
They are not struggling players. They are well established my friend and they stayed on top for such a long time because they find the need to always improve and not become comfortable with past achievements. Yes, World Cup is near and i am excited too.
Thanks a lot brother.
what your team supporter.
My opinion is totally in tune with a quote by Jon Bon Jovi. Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
Good writing about motivation. Thanks @communitycoin
We should not be conformist either, as you say we should not get used to it either
Let's go for a little more we will always give the best of ourselves, invent new things that also keep us motivated many times it happens that being in the same place you can get bored
Being in the same place, we will get bored. Living on past achievements, we will get relegated too.
Thanks a lot @yesslife
Great motivation and inspiring article.. i am waiting for it next part bro.... I think, Being successful and fulfilling our life purpose are not at all the same thing. we can reach all our personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss our purpose in this life..
Absolutely. You nailed it right there. Being successful is just a channel to reach our full potential and to strengthen our purpose in life. Sadly most people confuse it...so they are content and comfortable with being successful, and they miss out on relevance.
Thanks a lot for this. What a great insight.
That's where I'm at right now in my life being used to a normal routine but I know that I can do so much more in life right now. I just graduated college not too long ago and just wondering what my journey will take me next.
You have to think about what gives you fulfillment. There are sometimes, where what we want might be too far to reach, and we have to make do with what our hand finds to do. We shouldn't be too comfortable with it, as to forget our purpose and what gives us happiness. We should see it as a gateway to our purpose. Look for the things that will give you fulfillment based on who you are, and pursue it. You will see challenges there, yes, but you can be sure you will cope with it, because your passion and determination will shine through. You might feel defeated, but keep at it. No one can believe in you, more than you believe in yourself. Be intentional.
I wish you all the best and congratulations. Thank you for this.
Man, thank you for the kind words, I truly needed that. For so long and so many years I wanted to go to japan but there are so many obstacles to get to that goal. And for awhile now I've been thinking that it's not possible but now I'm going to try a different strategy to get to that point. To be honest I was going to give up, but I had this feeling that I shouldn't. My and mind and heart are always battling. What's realistic and how I feel. Crazy times @olawalium. Again thank you.
I am so glad this gave you a renewed hope and determination. I believe you can do it and you can achieve it. The battle for our mind always continue and constantly striving to stay focused helped in the long run. I can't wait to listen to your success story. I wish you all the best. You will be fine.
One things I get to realize more and more in my life,
is that nothing worth speaking about ever comes
form the confines of a comfort zone.
I say confines for a reason, for your comfort zone
is nothing more than a prison. In prison you are
limited in the things you can do, and so something
that limits what you can do in a sense imprisons you.
Great things await you if you rush towards you freedom.
It may be scary but many a wise man has said that the
treasure you seek can be found in the cave you fear to
enter.
Choose to be uncomfortable.
Choose to unleash your full potential.
Choose freedom...
Perfect. Lovely words i must say. Ease is a threat to work. Comfort zone is definitely nothing short of a prison. It deprives us and cut us off from seeing opportunities. You have really spoken well and i love this:
Choose to be uncomfortable. Choose to unleash your full potential. Choose freedom…
Thanks a lot for that. Much appreciated.
Exactly, we should never be too comfortable wherever we find ourselves, we should always work hard to get the vest out of our lives with consistency and great skill and efficiency .
Absolutely, with consistency, great skills and efficiency. Recognizing who we are helps too, as it makes us push to our full potentials. Thanks a lot.
Yeah, and also, i forgot to give you a thumbs up for your Fulfilling and promising writeup
All thanks to God. Glad you love them. Thanks again
You just speak to my senses here bro, why would I settle when their is still more to be accomplished... Lol
Nothing new would come in if you are contented with the old. Because you stretch before you attain an height does not mean you have attain your limit, you can still stretch further, you can push a little more.
If you are comfortable you can't desire for more and if you are not getting more it won't be long before you loose your relevance. I'm sure you won't like the title of an ex champion.. Lol
If Ronaldo and Messi are to play football for another 10 years, I don't see anybody dethroning them as the world best players because nobody is close to them at all. Those guys are super good... Lol
Always hunger for more and when you get more still desire for even more... Lol
You are not greedy for wanting more, if you can pay the price others are afraid of paying, getting ahead of wouldn't be a sin, it would be a reward for taking steps others are afraid of talking...
Looking forward to the second part
Thank you @olawalium and @communitycoin
When we do what others are not doing, we will achieve what others cannot achieve. Today's achievement is tomorrow's mediocrity. For those who fail to stretch, they will soon be relegated. We should never be too comfortable where we are, because there are still many more lands to conquer.
Yes, those two guys are not normal hahahaha.
Thanks for another wonderful comment brother. This is good.
If you have accomplished all your life goals and you are still living, it shows your goals are not big enough... Get out and accomplish more!
Absolutely!.
To achieve it all then we need to do an evaluation of ourselves.
First, self-introspection, Self-introspection is a process of understanding and examining all the things we have done, which impact on ourselves and others. Self-introspection is not limited to just contemplating something but more than that. A person must be able to take a decision from the results of his reflection, begin to devise a new plan to establish himself stepping forward.
Secondly, asking for feedback from others, someone else is like a mirror in society that will reflect something as a result of the stimulus we give. Other people may give a bad feed. If that happens we can not refuse with such unpleasant behavior to the other person. Proverbial lest we break glass just because of our face Looks charming in front of the glass. The thing we can do is filter or filter out existing feedback, which we can use while less we can make the motivation to make us better.
"Being a good person is a learning process, no one in this world is destined to be born with good behavior, being a good person is willing to learn from self-wrongness".
So it is friend, the truth that your posts are great and inspiring. When will the day Steemit make a change where we can choose accounts as a favorite to be shown in the first part
Man should not be comfortable at a place,man should try more convenience place cos you don't know what tomorrow brings, maybe that present place you are would be good again and that's why even the richest man in the world never stop making business, he don't know what would happen in the next an hour maybe someone else would overtake
Being so comfortablely is an early sign of giving in to life, as if there's nothing more to be achieved. Being comfortable in any given position mean you have it all and nothing really matter, to be more successful than your colleagues, the desire to stretch forth your hands is really important, being so comfortable will require you to stay in one place at all time and not thinking of what could happen at any point in time. The desire to always strive to get involved in many activities is actually time for growth signal. The desire to always wanting to look-up for more cannot be over stated, the rich get richer the poor get poorer, the simple fact is just that the richer always get involved in a lot of beneficiary activities, they never once satisfied and that is why they always have more and never stop yearning for more.
Yes you are right brother, with little success we believe, we actually owns the world which wasn't true. Just like someone who got a motorcycle on hire, after gotten to pay the bills, that's the time he felt to relax whereas that supposed to be the time for him to work more harder making money for himself to get the motorcycle replaced.
No achievement is good to be a bus stop where you think there isn't a desire to move forward, every achievement is surely a stepping stone in achieving now goal and success. The desire to always stay focused and buckle up should be our watch word and not some silly to be gotten into our system which actually blind us to see one success as all we ever needed.
Taking Ronaldo and Messi for instance they are ever determine and most successful player in the planet why, because they never see a success as they road block too reach another height but see it as stepping stone to be more focused and desire to run the race even when it seems to be too much challenges on their ways. Lot of record to be breaking every single season. People might say are they even human beings, if they are Africans, I believe we would have said they make sacrifices to reach that height (Africans mentality ), remember, never be too satisfied when it comes to success, always yearn for more and you will surely win more.