Down, Up Or Sideways

When faced with challenges we have two choices…quit or push on.

The first choice offers no resolution. The second brings with it the chance of success.

The problem with quitting is that we will probably never know how close we were to achieving our initial aim. Falling short of our target – whether physical, emotional or financial – is still falling short of our target.

It’s important to manage expectations…to realise that we have limits…that, no matter what, some things will be beyond our potential and capabilities. That’s not being defeatist. It’s simply being practical.

The bottom line is that we all have the potential to reach greater heights…to achieve more…to improve ourselves or our situation. But self-doubt limits our efforts. Our strength can be found within and sits alongside our real or perceived weaknesses. Both battle for attention.

Individually we decide the direction we will take and we either enhance or inhibit ourselves as a result.

When we add the criticism of others to our own self-doubt we can be disheatened or even defeated…deterred from making an effort…dissuaded from making an attempt to change.

As in all things, theory is simple but practice is what takes dedication and effort.

Bad habits can be modified or eradicated. Bad attitudes can be changed.

The life we have lived does not have to continue as the life we are living. We all have the opportunity to write the next chapter in our life story.

Change does not have to be radical to be satisfying.