RESOLUTENESS TO ACHIEVE AMIDST LIMITATIONS
To become a superstar is a resolve to do better than you have always done. You know that attaining superstar status isn’t easy. It requires working hard. However there are people who have worked hard yet they haven’t reached the place they thought they should have attained.
Achieving success and becoming a superstar is more than just working hard. It requires an attribute known as being resolute. To be resolute means being defiant in spite of whatever comes. This attribute makes you develop a tough skin. Its hard work deciding to challenge the odds and its greater work just challenging the odds which arrive at the route.
When we decide against the challenge, it’s a bold step. That bold step will be tested by the series of mountainous limits that position themselves along the route. Even when one is working hard, this mountain makes you feel like you aren’t working at all as yet. This could be very discouraging.
A person who doesn’t show defiance against the mountains he meets may give up as he meets the challenges. It is well known that once you are on the path of a great course, limitations form immediately. When you get over one, a new one forms almost immediately. This weakens your commitment to go all the way.
The route to becoming a superstar requires that you prepare your mind to be resolute while working. Hardwork pays overtime, but how about if it does not pay when you expect it to? It is you deciding that it must pay however long and your decision to keep at it that defines your resoluteness.
What stirs your hardwork to put you at safe land is your resolve to reach that safe land however long it’s going to take to work hard. You have to prepare your mind to take whatever comes, however good or bad because you believe that you are going to come through better.
When we start out in the direction of the superstar status that we desire, we expect challenges but we don’t anticipate as much challenges that often arrive. I’ve heard a couple of persons say “I never thought it would be this difficult, I should not have started it”. We give up not because we aren’t as hard-working to start at the project. We just decided to give up on the journey because our mind feeds us with the belief that we can’t go on.
Being resolute first begins from the mind. You may define the endpoint and that’s great, you may expect some challenges and that’s great but what you never expected is how huge the challenge would be. The endpoint and the challenges are only a function of the mind. You can’t physically measure them.
The power to be resolute arrives when you allow your mind not to define the size of the challenge you should be able to overcome. This means you have to feed your mind with the possibility of getting over infinite challenges. This results in developing in you a strong will that propels you now in the physical to continue to work hard and put in more effort towards the attainment of the status.
I’ve heard extremes of resoluteness where a person says what can stand between them and achieving their set goals in death. But you don’t have to die to achieve your feet.
The strength of a person’s resolve reveals itself in how hard he works more than others will and what results he gets as a result of his hardwork. It also shows itself in his perseverance against the challenges he is going through. It may not be easy but he doesn’t allow what he faces define how he thinks or acts. He doesn’t change direction because of the mountain. He faces it and gets climbing.
The truth is, the higher one goes, the stronger the forces against him. When you want to do great things, great limiting challenges arrive. Expect very huge challenges. Don’t define its size but get your mind geared up with the fact that it’s going to be really huge. If what you actually meet is less than you expected, that’s great. It’s actually less because you had anticipated bigger and had prepared against a much bigger challenge.
I remember as an undergraduate, my lecturers would give us difficult sums during the pre-exams test and we often did not perform very well at it. Because of these, we’d prepare harder for the exams in anticipation of a much difficult scenario. It often turned out however that the sums at the exams were much easier than we expected. The reason was because we prepared for the worst scenario.
As you work towards superstar status, prepare with the worst scenario in mind. Don’t expect the route to be an easy one. Plan against an extreme situation. Think about the things that could stop you from attaining your superstar status. Write as many as you can think.
Be firm, stay resolute, there is so much you can do, much more you can think. Be the superstar.