Never Stop!

Dearly beloved, enthusiastic, perseverant, and motivated dudes and dudettes, I suggest it is time for one step further, which is why I decided to clarify perseverance in this discourse in order to see life as a steady, never ending process; like a tv show in which you were born on the pilot and die in its last episode. Sometimes we drown in the rush of life – I personally like those time lapse infomercials because they reveal how fast this world is spinning –  sometimes this quick motion world makes us feel like a small spare part, a tiny cog wheel in the big clockwork of life...and all we want to do is sit down and have this process ended, complete, to just see the end of all our hard work. But once you get to that point, is there not anything missing? Don’t you want to go on somehow?

Look at yourself and how things are going in your life: when you got out of kindergarten, you went to highschool, when you graduated highschool, you went to college, when you graduated college, you started working, when you were done working, you retired, when you retired, you...

Life is a steady process, and there is never an end to our deeds, once we accomplish something, there is always another thing to accomplish, because process and new endeavors are the things to keep our world spinning. Former U.S. president Richard Nixon once said: "You must never be satisfied with success and you should never be discouraged by failure." Once we are successful, we should use that success and that fulfillment and excitement of our accomplishment to seek new tasks and quests, keep on moving, because if we have success, call it success, and stop going further, we stop. We stop in a world that is spinning at 99% the speed of light (merely using it as an allusion to our fast and speedy world). We should keep going, and keep pushing ourselves, because that is what the successful do: never being satisfied, because there is always another, higher mountain to climb. And if we have the enthusiasm I spoke of so enthusiastically, we love going further, and we are ready for new and more challenges. The successful people in this world never stopped once they achieved their goals, they kept going – the same thing regarding failure: you must NEVER be discouraged by failure. Learn, get up, and keep going, go on, rock on, never quit! It is quite interesting how close success and failure are together; both, the successful and the failing started off at the same point, maybe even with the same or, at least, similar motivation and enthusiasm, but while one kept going, the other one quitted. And wether you quit or not is up to you, the only thing that limits you from achieving something big is: you! Keep going and be successful, or quit. The successful are the ones that did what my old football coach told me all the time: finish strong! And they never stop, they keep going.

And if you decide to keep going, to seek a challenge, and once you are successful seek another one and keep your world spinning, then you have the perseverant heart of a champion. Then you have truly understood what the words tenacity, perseverance, and momentum mean, and thou will be rewarded. Keep going – and you will be unstoppable. Considered and done? Then you for sure know what Carrol Wrackley meant by saying: "Self-confidence is the key to the universe." Keep on going, baby!