Monday, December 8, 2008

Once You've Started, There Is No Road Back.

By Mr WebbyFied

I was thinking today, for whatever reason, how disheartening it is when people begin a journey, whatever that journey is, and they never get to the end of it. Now, it isn't so disheartening because they fell short of a goal, but because they will probably end up worse off than they were when they started.

It probably doesn't make much sense right now.

Bear with me.

When you are at the beginning of any goal, I mean the absolute beginning, you don't know what you don't know. What don't you know? Well, you aren't aware of the things that are keeping you from being a master at that field. You are looking at the fine details from the outside, and only seeing a piece of the picture. You do not understand the intricate details that separate the great from the good, and the amazing from the above average.

You have no point of reference yet, so you don't know how difficult things are.

Once you've started your task, journey, or whatever you decide to call it, you start realizing how difficult things are, and you begin to know exactly what it is that you do not know (I know, I know). You attempt to execute the ideas in your head, but you find you are doing more thinking and less doing. You get trapped in thinking about what action you should be taking instead of actually doing anything!

Can you see the problem?

Now, let's imagine for a second that we stop there. Let's imagine that you gave up because things were too confusing, and you couldn't quite get these things down pat. You quit because there was too much to learn, and you could never imagine learning all of that information.

You will be stuck. It is just like taking the Red Pill. Once you've opened up that door you can't unlearn what you already know.

You've go those random thoughts and concepts bothering you when you need focus. The problem is that you can't do anything about them. You never learned how to get a hold of them, because you never learned how to use them properly. They are reminders of the fact that you aren't satisfied with life, and that there is a better way.

Now these thoughts, that you aren't even using, will not leave you in peace, and they demand your attention nearly every other conscious thought.

There is no going back to undo what you've already done, so you must continue forward. You have no choice but to master the techniques, the ideas, the tactics, and that comes with finishing what you began.

Once you start learning again, you should start noticing how everything seems to fall into place. You start getting ideas easier, and you have less difficulty putting them into action. You still consciously think about doing things, but everything makes much more sense than they did at the beginning.

After a while of implementing the things you've learned, you will get to the final stage. This is the point in which you have absorbed, and taken to heart, everything you have read and learned. This is where everything happens automatically, and you flow. This is when you start realizing what it will take to make you great, and to separate you from the average.

You deserve to master whatever it is you have in mind. Also, remember that you don't have to be great at everything. You can just be great at one thing and good at everything else. You can always have someone else pick up that last bit of slack.

Until next time, continue taking the Red Pill, and see me in the morning.

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