Take a deep breath and let it out. This is a marathon, not a sprint. Rome wasn’t built in a day. I oughta remind myself of all of this every once in a while. If your dreams are big, if they are for the long term, frantically fretting won’t do. Gotta keep it steady and stay persistent. Compounding on previous and upcoming efforts.
Just the thought of it can be overwhelming and exhausting. There’s just so much that has to be addressed and tackled. It may seem impossible. Something you are not cut out for. Completely out of reach. But if you look around and really pay attention, you will see that, if you are committed and able to push through and stick with it, you will make significant progress. Soon proving yourself that it was within your scope after all. That's how I can manage.
Stress can certainly get to you, too. But it is a matter of time and how you use it. Most likely. Can you pace yourself? Can you break apart big tasks into smaller ones as well as put them in order? Can you delay gratification or, better yet, find gratification in the process? Ironically, sometimes slowing down gets you where you’re going faster. May even better guarantee that you’ll actually get there, rather than merely wearing yourself out.
At the end of the day, you are only a person. There is only so much you can do by yourself within a short time frame. But within a week, a month, a year, a decade? Now we’re talking. How far ahead do you look? Are you even allowing yourself to be far-sighted? I know that being stuck in or barely coming out of survival mode can mess with your ability to aim beyond the day-to-day. Been there. But if we lost it, we must regain it.
More than just survive, let’s thrive. Let’s look at our circumstances and decide that they could be improved. Then work persistently toward that. Guard your health, guard your sanity, guard your vitality. So that the span you have to work within will expand rather than shrink. This should be your priority to outlast adversity.
How many skills have you already developed? How much knowledge have you already gathered? How many accomplishments have you already achieved? How much have you already grown, matured, and evolved? You’ve done it before. You can do it again.
