Step it Out!

While many people are waiting for an escalator, winners know that the key to success is to climb the stairs. There is, it is said, no escalator to success.  Most people are looking for the easy way to success or getting there in life.  If you are impatient like me then you tend to believe that every day may, should and must be the day when the rest of your life can begin and that your ship will come in.  Sometimes you may even feel that the world owes you this one thing that you want so dearly, but yet every day you continue to climb stairs that seem to go on forever. The better road is one of small and slow steps, day after day planning and thinking clearly about where you want to go and how to get there.  It is best to enjoy the process, because that is what it is.  You need more than a single goal, you need many and a series of targets to achieve, before the journey is complete.  Sometimes the goals comes fast and easy, but mostly they take effort and a willingness to endure the process, without backing away from the challenge.  It was Mohamed Ali that said, "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier  to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it.  Impossible is not a fact.  Impossible is not a declaration. Its a dare.  Impossible is potential .  Impossible is temporary.  Impossible is nothing."  No matter where you find yourself, you can accept that the flight of stairs continues ahead of you and the most pointless thing that you can do is to stop and turn back down the stairs.  The only way is to take another step tomorrow towards the top of the stairs and enjoy the process  as you go.  Besides going upstairs will make you fit, it will develop your body and it will afford you the opportunity to grow.  In the process it is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.  A certain Mark Zuckerberg said, "The biggest risk is not taking any risk.. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks". We are living in those dynamic times and it is absolutely essential to have a good strategy in place, if we are going to achieve the visions and goals that we have for our lives (note our lives) - we must be vigilant about the changes happening around us and we must adapt our strategy accordingly.  A clear but flexible strategy hugely improves your chances of success.