You always hear keep going. Push through. Keep your eyes on the prize. Never quit. These are all clichés. They are great for motivating you to get through something difficult. They can also be classified as misguided advice. No, you shouldn’t always keep going. Sometimes you should stop pushing. Yes, keep your eyes on the prize but maybe from a different view. Yes, quit. Don’t quit the ultimate goal you are trying to achieve but maybe it is time to quit your method. We can get so caught up in what we are doing at times we don’t see our flaws. We’ve activated “tunnel-vision” and we forget, the tunnel we are in is not the only tunnel that exists. There’s another way.
It is hard to even take the leap of faith to chase a dream or out of the ordinary goal. When you do it, you sit and plan it. You come up with how you’ll make money to live. You think about what method you’ll take if you needed to take a step back. You decide how you’d identify progress is being made toward your goal. You think about what you’d do if you run into a problem that makes you question yourself. You have the perfect plan…then you activate tunnel vision. If you haven’t ever made this type of commitment, allow me to give you a peek behind the curtain on the first time you do it. When you are in it, the plan is the gospel. You don’t do anything outside of the plan. The longer you are in the harder it is to come out. The idea about how you’d make money will be a dilemma. If you wanted to keep your job, you’ll discover that this dream or out of the ordinary goal will require you to outgrow the position. If you decided to use savings, you’ll realize obtaining the dream will take longer than the money will last. If you decided to use the income the dream or a side hustle produces, you’ll know early that it will not match what you are used to.
The idea about what you’d do if you needed to take a step back begins to look like quitting and you know how you feel about quitting. You have no plan of going backward, no matter how hard or dire the situation may seem. You also will not see progress. Well, you will not see what you defined as progress but remember the other progress was not in the “gospel”. You will not realize or accept other progress as progress although it is. The plan of how you would handle running into problems that make you question yourself is the softest form of Teflon in the world. You feel everything but nothing punctures you. You question yourself through the entire feat, but you don’t quit. You find ways to deal with the issues and the questioning of yourself. As you spend more time, in your trance, you get to a point where problems don’t deter you, they are just issues that need to be resolved. They do get resolved but at what cost? You are so focused on one thing, you haven’t stopped to assess the situation. How does your journey look from an aerial view?
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If you’ve been here or are here, I’d like you to congratulate you for having the guts to do it. If you haven’t, I don’t want to scare you away from the choice. I do want to help you avoid the huge mistake that was made in the previous paragraph. When that person assesses the situation, they see that they may have dug themselves in a deeper hole than they were in at the time they leaped. This was not because they were attempting to harm themselves. This was because of treating their plan as the “gospel”. There is no gospel. All plans can change for better ones. All decisions can be altered when proven incorrect or not as efficient as they should be. Progress in all forms should be acknowledged and appreciated. The keep going, never quit attitude needs to be revisited. No need to blindly keep going towards a destination you’re not sure you are getting closer to. No need to never quit an action or method if it is doing more harm than good. What you should do is become a student while on your journey.
You don’t stick to a plan made by a person who has no experience at completing what the plan was made to accomplish. You wouldn’t do it if it was not you, you shouldn’t do it because it was you. You must become a sponge for information. Become extremely aware of what you are experiencing. Learn from mistakes. Learn from what works also. Be agile. Be ready to make changes. Tunnel vision does remove distractions but can also prevent solutions or better decisions from being made. The next tunnel you enter be sure to add in some stops/stations along the way. Add some windows to allow yourself to look around. Think outside of the plan. Sometimes the obvious or first choice isn’t the best one.
If I lost you, I’ll leave you with this scenario to explain in another way: You’re entering a building. The doormen tell you the building is under construction and the crew is leaving soon for vacation. You don’t acknowledge them and proceed into the building. You don’t know those doormen. You are not part of the crew. You are on a mission to see every floor and get to the top. Quite a while later, you find yourself on the 10th floor of the building. The elevators are off. The crew is gone. Your actions have you in a bad situation. You realize it’s not the building you belong in. Your options? You can wait it out…You can take the window… but luckily, there’s another way. The moral of the story is don’t walk into situations you know nothing about with a hard head, covered ears, and still eyes. There’s another way.
Food for thought… You do the dishes.
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