Love (Quality) & Time (Quantity) Are The Only Numbers You Need To Focus On.
Time and love. It is all just a matter of time and love. When it comes down to it. Your life is made up of how much time you get to spend, doing all the different things you love.
Time, is relentless. It never, ever stays still no matter how much it might seem like it. Similarly, ambitious people, rarely stay still for long. Even when we are physically still, we often are reflecting, pondering, calculating.
This is for one simple, undeniable reason. The only way to get (plenty of) things done, is to take a lot of action.
We all get the same twenty four hours (quantity). What separates us is what we do with those twenty four hours (quality). How we spend our time speaks to who we are (identity) and what we value (love).
Nevertheless, none of us lives in a vacuum. We shares the planet with 8.3 Billion people. Whose existence, impacts ours. Moreover, for our own sake a balance must be struck between our individual endeavours and our social need for human interaction.
Peace, The Only Guarantee?
Arguably, what we do, should impact the globe if we are truly successful right? Well, not necessarily. The truth is that us human beings often reject good products and services. The existence of corruption, greed, injustice, power, etc all explain why a good product or service, can fail to get a foothold in a particular market despite its merit.
Nevertheless, the only way any of us will be able to have any real peace in this life is if we make an attempt. Adulting is arguably knowing that failure is possible and still trying anyway. The real gift that comes from shooting your shot is affording yourself the opportunity to have a result.
This is because as the saying goes, you miss one hundred percent of the shots that you never take.
Given the prevalence of the media and social media in our lives and/or human nature. We often tend to frame our narratives in whether we won or loss, miss or scored.
However, this is definitely a mistake. The truth is, regardless of whether you score or miss. You ultimately gained, because you have complete clarity on whether you were able to close or not. When you never shoot your shot, you never have the same peace or clarity on where you stand in relation to your dreams.
Like in love, in life, it is better to know where you stand when it comes to what you really want. The “worse case scenario” is you miss and fail to capture your dream.
However, arguably, this is when you really start living. Figuring out what to do next, after a loss, or failed attempt is how winning is done.
This is because the feedback from that experience, affords you a firsthand insight, into how you can be better. Which in turn is fuel, motivation that helps to direct you en route to you being better. Moreover, when one door closes or a dream dies, another door, or space for a new dream is born.
It’s Hard To Tell Where Losing Stops & Winning Begins.
When we fail or fall, the opportunity for growth, for bouncing back, for new, is also born. Which is exactly why winners are born from their experiences of losing. Their courage and bravery that led up to their initial attempt always has a win baked into the result. They either win when they score, or they win in some other, different way.
They either learn how to be better, or receive inspiration to pursue something else (better). In this way, winners learn that it is practically impossible to really lose in this life. The only loss that any of us can ever really feel is self imposed, through our own lack of trying.
The one insight to be taken from this article is that it is our duty as human beings to try, to aspire to, spend our lives chasing all of our most treasured dreams.
If we do that, the end result will be that this world is a better place for us all to live in. We’ll have peace and we’ll have self respect.