Adopt an Arrow Mindset!

Dear lovely people,

An anonymous author thoughtfully wrote “An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.”

When you decide to change your life for the better; when you take the informed decision to work for your financial, moral and psychological liberation, you start dreaming, setting goals and planning on how to achieve it. By so doing, you create a force that starts exerting an amount of pressure call it pull on what I call the natural success system. Now because the smooth functioning of the natural success system (obviously designed by God) receives frequent shocks due to our misconceptions, wrong doings, inertia, blind rocking, perception, stereotypes, negative mindsets, wrong counsel etc. difficulties spring up on your path and start exerting an almost equal but opposite force call it drag on the natural system requiring that you implore your talents, hard work, tenacity etc. to leverage the natural success system and thus, become successful.

It sounds like Isaac Newton’s law of motion isn’t it? Well, from my knowledge of physics, Newton’s third law of motion states “When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.” Get the point?

So when the difficulties that you and the environment around you have created drags you backwards from process towards your goals just like the arrow, you’ve got to review your plans, approaches and strategies, changing them where necessary (focusing and aiming) so that they can launch you just like the arrow into something greater – your ultimate goal.

Michael Jordan is a glaring example when he said “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” If Michael had given up after all those failures, he will never have ended up the success he became.

Get it from one of the world’s most successful entrepreneur - Steve Jobs – “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”