Small Steps

These are the times when we will find out what we are really made of. These are the moments we will find out just how much we want our dreams. These are the times when our character is built. Don't ever let circumstances, events, or other people tell us you can't do something. We deserve to experience a life of joy, freedom, and completeness. Just don't give up. It won't be easy, if it were, they wouldn't be called obstacles, and they wouldn't force us to grow. Remaining focused and determined on our goals isn't an easy task. It's easy to be side tracked.

Everybody wants to be happy in life. We all want to live a perfect life. We want that great job or a successful business. Everybody wishes for good life. It may be at different levels. One person may define a good life one way and another may describe it another way. For one person a good life may be just having three meals a day and a roof over their head.

Once we know that life is hard- once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer hard.

That is one of the beautiful things about life. We can make our life better. We have total responsibility for what we do and how we respond to the fact that life is hard. As the now cliché saying goes: “If life hands you lemons, make lemonade.”

Accepting that life is hard comes with accepting that we have the responsibility to make it better. Not only do we have the responsibility to make it better, we have the ability and the power to make it better.

We can make it better – become a better employee and someone worth giving more responsibilities at work. The promotions and the better pay are sure to follow one way or another.

We can make it better – learn how to turn that business around. Gain the extra skills you need to run a successful business.

No matter what situation we are in, we have a choice. No matter how bad things are, we have a choice. No matter what we think we can or cannot do, we have a choice.

Now it may not be an easy choice, by any means. It may be a very tough choice and the road we decide to take may be a tough one. It may push our way out of comfort zone. It may mean that in the initial period our life may get even harder than it already is. But it is a choice nonetheless.

I believe that everyone is born unique. But through the years we work very hard to be like everyone else. We conform to society’s so-called “common-sense.” Unfortunately it is just that – “common sense.” that does not mean its “good sense.”

Small steps to success together they add up to hundreds of thousands of small steps. But we might have chosen not to take the first step. We might have stopped at any point along the way. That would have meant that we would not have gotten to our destination.

There were also obstacles along the way. But with each small step they were overcome.

It takes only one small step to succeed.

A true leader does not look down upon roadblocks as something which discourages him; but considers them as motivations- motivation to succeed and motivation to achieve.

Because, as the Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu said: “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

--By Mohammad Fahad Hafeez