While I mentioned in this week’s episodic musing about just going for it, you’ve also got to realize if along the road you make a mistake, it’s smart to improvise if it’s the right or practical thing to do.
Don’t let your ego get the best of you and be stubborn. If you’re working towards something, you won’t do everything perfectly. Admit the mistake, suck it up, and move on.
You only fail if you don’t learn lessons from your mistakes.
Hope everyone’s having a great week.
As always…
Stay awesome.
– Rego
Improve Your Lifestyle. Improve Yourself. This is Life. This is Rego’s Life.™
Well, happy new year (…add exclamation mark here).
I’ve been away for a while working on some things but I’m hoping everyone had a good Christmas and their new year was off to more than a good start.
I also hope everyone didn’t make any new year’s resolutions.
Why?
Good question…
Musings Episode 83: Guts Over Fear…
For the past few weeks now while picking up my daily necessities, I’ve had to endure the cringiness of various store marketing ads blaring over their speakers talk of new year’s resolutions and “getting fit” – while eloquently lacing in why you need that new yoga mat.
New Year’s resolutions are really just excuses to not actually apply yourself to anything.
They’re the unsaid safety net of “new year, new you” and if you don’t get it done then hey, that’s okay champ, at least you tried. Maybe next year, eh?
I’m not saying that relaxing is a bad thing – but they say these days, your average person spends 4 hours looking at screens – that’s *outside* of work.
That’s a lot of screen time. Half a workday to be precise. You could do a lot with that time. So why aren’t you?
The biggest obstacle I find people wrestle with is fear. The fear of starting. The fear of starting only to fail. The fear of starting, succeeding, and then having things crumble.
I’m not faultless – this includes me.
But like a fear of a big, scary new workout plan (or big, scary new place you’re moving to), ultimately it’s a fear that it’d be better to deal with than shove under the rug.
You’ve gotta have guts over fear. Ever seen the music video of Eminem‘s song “Guts Over Fear”?
I’m not a huge fan of his music, but that music video is a perfect depiction of guts over fear.
I know when it comes to starting anything new there’s the headache and questions of “How am I going to get it done? When am I going to get it done? Can I GET it done?”
It’s fairly ironic how some people don’t grasp this concept.
They’ll start a new job (motivation), work that job, some days dislike that job (motivation lost), then keep going to that job even when they’re no longer motivated.
…but then won’t maintain that same course of tenacity when it comes to enhancing something they want to do for themselves that’ll help them grow outside of that exact same job.
“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
If you’re going to do anything for yourself, do it with 100% effort – and nothing less. Once you start doing it with 100% effort – do it with even more. Your talents were given to you for a reason – to utilize them to their maximum ability. At the same time – when using those talents don’t let anyone take advantage of you – your skills have value – put a good number on them. You’re worth it. 😉
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