To begin a journey is exciting, to say the least. The planning is 70 percent of the fun, vacations, a new job the mental vision, that great feeling you get from the start is exhilarating. Your feet fairly fly to get started. It doesn’t matter what the adventure maybe, it’s something new. But what about after you have started, what happens then, is it still fun, it’s reality and here is where we find our perseverance. Middle-mile is another word for testing one’s perseverance.
Every race has three phases; start, middle-mile, and finish. The start is the fun, then you move from the exciting beginning into the most difficult the arduous middle-mile. No more planning, you’re into it now. No more crowds cheering you on, you left them at the starting line. That’s where the crowds want to be, not in the boring middle-mile — there’s no fun here. The middle-mile is where the work is, where winners are made or broken. For the foot racer it’s a steady grind, painfully placing one foot in front of another. This is where your heart is challenged to complete the mission, taxing your determination to see it through.
In any race, or business venture, the middle-mile is where you show what you’re made of, your left to your own strategies, or devices to make good on your own. Starting a business is the fun part, but you must stay with-it to meet any and all obstacles, and this is long hours of hard work. Hardships you were taught to expect, not only how to persevere, but that you can persevere. My friend, the middle-mile is where most businesses fail, not because the business idea was bad, but failed for lack of perseverance to conquer that middle-mile.
The middle-mile, you’re alone here, the finish line is ahead but now you must focus on the race. The middle-mile is why you have trained, this is the toughest leg of any race. In business too, you must find solutions to those problems that plague any and every new business venture. You must survive the middle-mile, it is the hardest part of life’s race; the place where you win or lose by not giving up. Family obligation, teaching children to be good citizens can be overwhelming, and that’s the families’ middle-mile. Knowing that it’s not an easy task to reach, but winning this race gives the greatest prize of all: happiness, pride, and a loving family.
Let us end with some inspiration from the pen of Rudyard Kipling and the poem “If,” full of wisdom. “If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing left in you, except the will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’” that’s perseverance.
January 06, 2021 at 05:15PM
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