The best is not the highest possible.
ThePro
When you never planned to be the best, you just settle for anything worthwhile and not necessarily the best. I have heard someone saying, he was motivated by the outcome of his first of ten levels journey. It was the best among about fifty starters – that was why he strived to remain at the top until the end of the programme.
While this is possible for a few persons, deliberate effort is needed to achieve sustainable success in any endeavour. The next paragraphs highlight some tips in your pursuit of life-longed best (in no particular order).
Create/invent your style of achieving a specific goal: Creating your way of doing things make you trust in your abilities to succeed in any venture. It is natural to you. Note that you will need to change this style as the situation demands – you are not in control of certain things or events like the economic variables being controlled by the forces of the market.
Find your location/environment: This is where things work best for you – where you get inspired on ideas. With this knowledge, you do not waste your time where things will not work for you.
Go at your own pace: As an undergraduate, I know a classmate who only get serious with his studies at the tail end of the semester and still made good results, whereas there is another who start very early because he needs repetitive reading to get a firm grasp of class notes/materials. They both did well. Others do the same thing the first person did but with lower performance. That law operates in anything.
Leverage on the strength of others: When we were learning to walk as toddlers, we try to lean on support – maybe our mother or an elderly person or things around the house. Later we can stand on our own and even walk. At some points, we are amateur, beginners – learning from others. Later, when we are masters ourselves, we would start teaching others.
Learn how to leverage on the strength of others by taking Baby Steps
Help others: This may be a great task. If you call it a risk, it is worth taking. Its benefits include prevention of forgetfulness, means of networking with people, an enterprise with pecuniary benefits, and means of meeting your needs – exchange of skill for another person’s skill.
Avoid being a distractor master: Life comes with activities that divert our attention to something else. You must always be conscious of them and avoid/divert them. There are positive ones – that add value to you, but at the same time eat up the time for what you are supposed to be doing at a point in time. There must be deliberate efforts to level up the gap created by them.
Dare to exceed the best: The best is not the highest possible. Plan to exceed your planned success so that even if that is not possible, it will be possible to achieve your planned best.
Conclusively, adjust to what your present situation brings across your way. As you travel along, things will be clearer and you can adjust accordingly. Seek advice when necessary and include the G-factor in your success equation.
Dare to exceed the best! Prepare a delicious life.
ThePro 