The road to Success isn’t Mario Kart. It’s sludge, and it’s worth it.
No goal seems out of reach with momentum.
You’re Mario picking up the gold star,
Triumphant, unstoppable music is playing as you pulverise all the obstacles in your way.
Everything bounces off you while you keep pressing forward at a blistering speed, milestones become stepping stones and you want this feeling to last forever.
With momentum you can do anything,
You find yourself wanting to work even harder, all the inspiration in the world comes flooding into your mind, and every dream and goal you want feels at arms length, easily grasped, obtainable.
Momentum shortens the distance between you and your vision of where you know you ought to be.
Without it,
You’re moving through deep, dense sludge, and every foot forward feels more agonising and tiring than the last; each muscle in your body beginning to ache and fill with lactic acid.
Feeling the weight of the sludge as it drags you down, the shortness in your breath, holding onto the hope that the terrain up ahead is going to be more forgiving and any moment now another gold star is going to magically appear.
The sludge ain’t the problem ,
It’s the ‘wait’ for things to be ‘different’ that is.
You want to reach your goal with ease, but you know anything worth pursuing is going to involved discomfort and challenge.
Relying on momentum is like sitting at a slot machine.
If you pull down the lever enough times, then the 3 cherries have to pop up sooner or later.
So your arse stays in that seat, firmly planted; weakening moment to moment from in-action as you give away your most precious resources.
First money, then your most valuable resource of all.
Time,
Life or the slots; the odds always favour the house.
So you keep waiting for someone to take the pressure off; someone to come and promise you the easy jackpot.
There is no easy jackpot.
And sure, you may be the 1 in 1 million that get lucky but then you’re faced with an even worse dilemma.
You don’t know how to be somebody who has 1 million dollars.
Now the fear isn’t momentum, and it’s not the million dollars…
It’s losing it all,
If you got the RESULT without the WORK, then you can lose it just as quickly as you got it.
Do the WORK, don’t wait for momentum, it doesn’t get easier.. You get better, stronger, more resilient, and realise just how CAPABLE you are of doing what it takes to have the life you want.
Instead of wanting it to get easier start focusing on feeling good about what difficulties you’ve been able to work through.
Each foot forward is a sign that you won’t let anything get in your way; and whether it takes you 20 minutes to get through the sludge or 20 days…
The key lesson and take away is…
You are the kind of person that adversity can’t stop from getting what you want, now aren’t you?
Scale your efforts
Notice the small wins
Keep moving at whatever pace you need toward discomfort but keep making a choice to move closer to it not further away from it.
Reward each time you decide to be uncomfortable.
Prepare for the sludge, expect it all the way to the other side.
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You don't play Mario Kart just for crossing the finish line. The whole process is fun! Life should be the same. Work doesn't have to feel like work.
It only does when we are no clear what it is we want and we don't choose wisely how to get there. "Being rich" isn't really a fulfilling goal, it's just like crossing that finish line. You'll feel good when you get there....and then what. So "getting rich" doesn't really serve as good motivation for most people to have passion in the dirty details because it doesn't carry any emotional weight.
Spot on, and ultimately any GOAL is only reason people want a goal is that underlying feeling they think is lacking...which is what you're saying when 'getting rich' isn't really good motivation.
Ironically, if they had more of that feeling in their lives [or cultivate more of it] the GOAL would be closer for them to reach .
We're all driven by our feelings.
And a GOAL is only worth pursuing for WHO you have to become to reach it, and the skills it will help you cultivate... if the FEELING is the reason you want it so bad, then the real question is... what's causing that lack of feeling to begin with?
Thanks for your input
Your writing has improved immensely since some of the earlier posts you used to make on social media. Great work, particularly liked this:
"The sludge ain’t the problem ,
It’s the ‘wait’ for things to be ‘different’ that is."