Go Hard or Go Home!
Are you in a Rut?
Are you Living your Dreams?
Or are you Just Getting By?
If you aren’t satisfied with where you are at or where your life is going then I believe these are the questions you might want to consider. I found after asking myself these questions that I had a whole new set of questions that followed.
Where do I want my life to go?
What do I consider Living my Dreams?
What fulfills me?
What is my Purpose?
Some of these questions may seem easy but they weren’t, oh sure, where I want my life to go is obviously somewhere good, somewhere happy and somewhere fulfilling but I didn’t know what that looked like. Figuring that out takes a lot of thought and true soul searching and knowing where to start isn’t a given for anyone but I found that the answers to these questions definitely helped point me in the right direction.
Everything I do is full on (Go Hard or Go Home!), I don’t like to do anything half-way, I don’t see the point, but of course I think that’s just part of my work ethic and personality, something anyone athletic or competitive can identify with, tenacity is the key to success. Having those traits that I applied to the many sports I played made it frustrating for me to not have any idea or direction of what I wanted to do in life. In sports, it’s easy, you already know what the end result is supposed to look like, but life goals? That’s a whole other game! I had a blurred vision of the emotional aspect of where I wanted my life to go which was the (somewhere good, somewhere happy, somewhere fulfilling) but I had no idea what the purpose or the work was that would be associated and that was because I needed these questions to help me. Again with the questions, I had more that followed!
What’s my first step?
What’s my second step?
What’s my third step?
There was no end to these questions and there still isn’t! I am still in hot pursuit of my goals and have no intention of letting up, not for any other reason than it’s too important to me to give up. I found a quote from a movie “A Cinderella Story” that fits perfectly.
“Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game”
How true this quote is, you have to step up to create change for yourself, it’s the only way. You can’t expect anyone else to do it for you or to fulfill your dreams, there’s no sense of accomplishment in that and if something means that much to you then giving up isn’t an option. Your rewards come from accomplishing things for yourself and being able to say “I did that!” or “I was part of that”. Either on your own or collectively no one else can create the glow of accomplishment and inner reward but you!
If you want something, you have to make it happen!
Shelley Hallmark 