Day 23: How Do You Keep Yourself Going?
by Edward Smith
28 Jul 2020
When Missions Outweigh Potential Defeats
In my last article entitled: 🤠How to Create Meaningful Goals and Seduce them With Your Passion you learned that a mission can inspire you to continue forward even when it would be easier to quit and give up.
That's good, because at my last job, things were pretty nuts.
The place was crazy, but I believed in the crazy, and was passionate about seeing the crazy succeed. At the heart of things I saw what the owner was doing, and I was excited about what the company was working to accomplish.
The company was changing history in front of me, and the world would never be the same afterwards. It was thrilling. It was meaningful.
That mentality kept me safe and sane for years. Feeling that way about something, was super important, because the day to day working environment was often hostile, inefficient, filled with drama, and could get extremely personal and emotional.
If you wanted to stick it out, you had to have thick skin, and you had to be willing to suck things up when people were being mean to you. It was like a rocky marriage. One that you cared about.
Being Married to Your Important Goals is Key
Working at my old aerospace company was like being married to someone that you love for the long term. In that situation, it doesn't matter how you survive your best days, it matters how you survive your worst.
Marriage requires stamina. When you're married, you're married to that person every day, no matter how things go. You're going to fight. You're going to get mad and throw things, but what you do after matters more then the thing going wrong itself.
If you're smart, you're going to stop yourself, and you're going to take the time to listen to the other person. You're going to look for places where misunderstandings can be repaired or turned into compromises. This person matters to you. You want to succeed with this person. This person is your mission.
When it comes to your mission, never give up, and always retain your faith.
Faith No Matter What!
You have to be willing to believe in something even though you can't see the results in front of you. You have to push through the smoke, because the good things lie beyond the smoke. Reach for them. Your faith was justified. The good things are out there.
These things only become available to those who embrace hard work and choose to persevere. Struggle is the secret spice, that when accepted into the total meal, compliments the flavoring of any great plan.
When it comes to faith, doubt is not allowed. You must remain faithful to your cause. Your cause matters. At a higher level, your sacrifices are completely worth it. There is no question. You accept the short term pain. You learn to toughen up. You become passionate. You obsess about it, because this is something that you want. When you want something bad enough, it means something!
Conclusion
Having made it past the one third mark of a sixty-six day challenge, I find myself reminding myself that my goal is worth it, and that being resilient remains the key. I believe in myself, because I believe something cool is on it's way.
I haven't seen it yet, because its' over a month out, and it hasn't happened yet, but I believe in it still, and that unwavering faith keeps me going. On day sixty seven, when the challenge is complete, I'll have sixty-six reminders of what it took to earn this day. All of them will become prized possessions.
Those sixty-six days will be valuable. They will have beat out ten years worth of guessing and dreaming. Those sixty-six days are intentional, and they were engineered specifically to align with my inner faith and purpose.
Want to try it for yourself? You can start today. You can start any day. Define your mission, become passionate about that mission, and watch as you make progress towards it.
Goal setting, with intentional planning and upkeep, transforms you into an unstoppable force of nature. Believe in yourself and empower your future self to make it happen! Your future self is counting on you. Begin the journey right now! It is your destiny! I'll be rooting for ya!
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