Sometimes it’s a slog to get done what must be done and that’s ok. It’s easy to make believe that people who’ve gotten where they wanted to go possess some baseline qualities we don’t have. In reality these people from Benjamin Franklin to Dr. Livingstone were simply people. Though they may have had extraordinary luck in many circumstances, they operated within the same globe we do today. There’s little doubt in my mind that Dr. Livingstone, who bravely trudged through an unexplored Africa, didn’t lay himself out writhing in pain from whatever unknown disease he was combating at the time to contend with the idea of just what in god’s name he was doing to himself. He pressed on and so much so that he resembled only a shell of his former self near the end of his travels.
Most of us aren’t exactly walking hand in hand with undiscovered cannibalistic tribes of an uncharted Africa but we do each have our own share of internal struggles that can sometimes seem to pluck away at us on our way to success. Often times the internal struggle can materialize as a brick wall we build ourselves when a fast approaching deadline is coming due or when we know we’ve got something we could be doing that’s more important than what we’ve put in front of ourselves. It can begin to stop us from accomplishing what we’d like to set out to do. This is why it’s important to shed some light on these ill feelings.
The metaphorical brick wall we build ourselves is in our heads. It doesn’t exist. If we just start to habitually, robotically even, walk ourselves into beginning what we know we need to do we sever our bricklaying hands and realize that all of what we’d thought the mountain up to be was only a mole hill after all.
Take care out there friends,
Jordan
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” -Seneca
Jordan Hutchison 