Undoubtedly, life is in phases. One phase of life prepares you for another. To thrive in a new phase of your life, you may need an entirely new approach and skill set.  The strength that brought you to this phase may not necessarily take you to the next.

All my life, I have wanted to be an athlete. A few health recommendations are enough reasons to let go of that dream, but there is one thing I learned while building that dream: it takes more than speed to get the medal.

For instance, in a 100-meter race, every athlete doesn’t complete the race with the same energy gauge they started with.  The closer they are to the finish line, the more their gut, strength and focus are rekindled. The moment they perceive or sight the finishing line, an extra surge of adrenaline from nowhere within them is ignited. A new strength from nowhere fills their spirits and minds.

The same kind of thinking, strength and information that brought you to where you are will not take you to where you want to go. Change is constant. You might need an entirely new thinking pattern, strength and information to scale new heights.

The game is not static. It gets more intense. If you had read for 1 hour as a high school student and maintained your ‘A’ status, you need more than that at the university level.  The same energy that made you an ‘A’ student in secondary school cannot sustain you in university.  You need to step up your game.

The reason most of us are not making sense out of life is the comfort we find in a pattern that used to work.  That it worked today doesn’t make it potent forever.  Life, at each of its phases, has new demands placed on you, and to scale through, you must embrace change and respond with greater strength.

© OLAEKAN Olatunbosun O

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