I was listening to the radio today and there was a guest speaker on talk radio, I believe he was from Atlanta Georgia, and the guest speaker used this statement, "it is easier to obtain than to maintain".
These words penetrated my inner self, because I knew that most of us do not still have all we got along our life journey. Things (personal possesions) do not last long in our hands. We do not even stay long enough in positions. Most of us are perambulators, we are into rigmaroling or better put as ragman rolling. We are not set for a course.
Ask yourself, for how long you kept letters from peers, gifts from buddies, notes from school, books from school grades/levels, sermons heard from pulpits and so on. You must not wear out before what you hold withers. THis is what makes a champion remain a champion. He has to hold on to the title to remain an undisputed champion. Someone may say, "I could not help it. "THis is rubbish! Things that leave you sprawling are the same that make others stand." Nobody would blame you for a situation you could not handle, they only blame you for situations you failed to handle. You let it happen by failing to follow instructions or laid down principals.
Principals makes you a principal. If you move without instruction you head for destruction. You can only maintian what you obtain by observing rules and putting them into play. If you go free-lance and out of range, you will get missed.
The longer you stay up there, the more respect you earn. It is better to rise and fall a hundred times before you attain the top than to get up there and fall once. THe higher you go the fatal the fall would be, so hold on. Just "keep on keeping on." Retirement is honourable, resignation is acceptable, but falling is terrible trust me. There is no time for Jack and Jill because once you fall everyone sees you rolling down the hill and they will never try to let you forget it.
As I shared with a longtime friend today, "I do not need your permission to change!" The last time we saw each other you still viewed me in that light. I guess, the problem is not me but you because you haven't even changed your mindset.
You don't need anybodys permission to change! When you change most people don't and sometimes they will pass that feeling onto you. Don't fall for it you are not the same.
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