Life is about learning to dance in the rain. Home sweet home. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Always get back on the horse. You know what I mean.
But, today I am going to break my own rule because I saw something on *gasp* social media that resonated with me.
'"I did not come this far only to come this far." Keep going. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep growing.' - Jeffery R. Holland.
Sometimes, we're all too tempted to take a break from our goals because we've hit a snag. I may or may not have eaten homemade donuts, yogurt, brownies, and a bowl of cheesy vegetable soup today instead of eating a green smoothie, a salad, lentils, and whole-grain bread. Yesterday might have been worse.
I sometimes think I've come far enough. I can rest now. I can stop and take a break. But when you're only halfway up a hill and you stop, it's so much harder to get your momentum back. Getting to the top seems harder than it maybe seemed a week ago. And, over time, you lose your progress and slide slowly but surely to the bottom of the hill again.
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| One of my mom's beautiful horses. |
Your goals might not be the same as mine, but they might seem just as out of reach as mine currently feel to me.
A retired doctor came to speak to a group of high school students. One student, during a question and answer panel, asked the doctor how long it had taken him to become a heart surgeon.
"14 years," he replied. Undergraduate, medical school, residencies, fellowships. Fourteen years to get where he was aiming for from the start.
"Oh," the student replied with disappointment, "I could never spend so much time getting there. That's too long."
"Why?" asked the doctor, "The years will pass no matter what. You will have the time."
Don't get discouraged when results are slow to come. Don't give up. Keep trying. I did not come this far only to come this far. I can do more.
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