Success often requires courage. Courage often leads to success.
The problem is gaining the courage and deciding what exactly it is you want to be successful in.
This can be difficult. If everything you want to be successful in is put on a list and considered achievable, all at the same time, you will very quickly become overwhelmed. Or perhaps just whelmed. Either way you have a problem.
The solution is to pick one thing you need success in, one dream you want to follow, and to find the courage to take one step toward that dream. But don't stop there. After that first step the process becomes a tiny bit easier as well has harder. Now all you have to do is continue to walk forward with your end goal in mind.
Unfortunately, life is difficult and messy, and there is someone who does not want you to succeed in anything.
Your goal now has become two goals, two things on your list to accomplish.
1) keep walking to attain the end goal
2) keep walking despite the whelming urge to stop
As you walk toward your goal, it may become necessary to sprint a few stretches, just to kick start your courage again.
Our courage start us out on a path, then it tends to fade away. But every so often, at a checkpoint, we have to reignite it in order to continue on in our journey.
I recommend sprinting to the finish line. As soon as you can see the end, do everything possible in your power to get there as fast as you can.
Once you have passed that crucial line, achieved your goal, attained success... It is possible that nothing obvious will happen. No fanfare. No horn. No roaring crowd. But, that is not why you started out on this journey.
You began because you had a dream that you wanted to accomplish.
Along the way, you learned things about yourself that will help you for eternity. You became more of the person you want to be. You accomplished something for yourself.
You have success.
I will make you one promise.
When you reach a goal. You will be better. But, that is not the promise. When you cross that finish line, you may see no one there. You might not hear any cheering, but someone is there. His chest is swelling with pride at the thing you have accomplished. He is so happy for you he has tears running down his face.
This man is you Heavenly Father.
And he was with you every step of the way. Now that you have made it, he is the proud parent of a winner.
