Rest on your laurels

28-11-21. No16

Said in our daily life it assumes many forms, put yourself up for things, do not think about it too much because you are left out. That is to say, that basic idea that things have to be always in activation, in motion, one cannot neglect because what one wants or intends is not going to achieve, precisely not because of the conditions but because of a certain complacency and carelessness. that we can assume.

It has to do with the laurel wreaths that were awarded in the ancient world to people who did important things, poets, scientists, rulers, the image of Caesar with his laurel crown may come to mind.

And resting on your laurels is as simple as being so pleased and happy that I have arrived, that I have nothing else to do, and you rest on your laurels and what has been achieved is lost or to be achieved is not achieved, because you are too focused on what you already have, in what you have already achieved and not in what is possible.

Here we can experiment and clearly see the risks of success. When one achieves a certain success, one can feel calm, with the satisfaction that I have already arrived and be convinced that I will not fall again, two things can happen: not striving to take care of it and not doing anything to achieve better results.

Not only in our day-to-day life it has to do with achieving success and complacency, but also with not giving things the dynamics and time that things need. It is also not seeing opportunities and that these opportunities can disappear at any time. Sometimes why, why? If this is how I am fine, or I keep what I have or what I am and it's over.

It has to do with the need to be aware, necessarily focused and always focused on improvement, growth, development, no matter who has achieved more and who has achieved less.

There is a fairly strong tendency, to always look outside, whether I do it or not do it depends on the conditions, if the conditions allow me, yes, if they don't allow me, no. In my view, a somewhat passive attitude, one begins to be a slave to conditions and circumstances. There are people who complain that the conditions and circumstances are what they are and you cannot change them, and it reminds me of a Chinese proverb that says you cannot change the wind, but you can put the sails in one direction or another to advance, that is, your attitude and decisions in these situations and how you are going to deal with them if it is modifiable.

At times when changes are being made, can resistance to change affect us? Dangerous behaviors are generated for our life, our improvement, and our development. New possibilities and spaces are opened that favor the development of life and there are those people who immediately capture and make them their own and seek an emerging response to these new conditions for the sake of the human essence, the improvement of life and future development. But there are those other people who let them go by the side, and we wonder why not, and the answer is precisely because he fell asleep, enraptured, anesthetized on his laurels, because we remain clinging to what we already have.

Mark Twain said:

“20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So let go of the moorings, sail away from safe harbors, catch the trade winds. Explore. It sounds. Discover".

It does not have to be 20 years old, it could be that yesterday you stopped doing something, and today you say wow why didn't I do it. Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today. Raise the anchor of the boat of your life, leave your known port behind and unfold the sails so that the winds of change move it in the direction you decide, grow, change, develop. It is a maxim that we have to apply in all spheres of life.

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