Thursday, 12 January 2012

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going." Beverly Sills

You've heard this before, right? Maybe not in these exact words, but you've heard it before.
So why would you read this blog post if you've heard this before?
Here's why...
I want to encourage you to think of this statement a little more in depth...in a different way.

It is a process to really be able to "get to where you want to be" and understand what it takes to get there.

Does an individual in high school decide they want to be a brain surgeon after graduation and the day after they graduate start performing brain surgery?

Does a couch potato decide on January 12 that they are going to run a marathon and get up on January 13th and off they go?

Does an individual who spent 10 years practicing bad habits that led them to be unfit and overweight decide they want to be fit and a healthy weight take a pill and shazam, they're back to where they were 10 years ago?

Each of those goals involves a process to get to the desired outcome.

The student would go off to school, study hard, struggle with grades, get a tutor, pass one exam, struggle with the next, try to have a social life and participate in extracurricular activities, more school, more struggling, more tutoring, more social, until 14-16 years later, you can call yourself a full fledge brain surgeon.

I'm not going to break each of the examples down into such detail, but you get the idea. Just as it's a process to become a brain surgeon, it is a lot of proper planning and execution to run a marathon or become a fit and healthy individual. The "lessons" you learn along the way help you be more successful in acheiving the desired outcome, because once your "there", is it over? No, that's just the beginning!

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