Go.... Just Go!!

Here is how life works, you have to put at work and get things done and this can done by not worrying and projecting things into future because life might be short but the journey in life is on a large and long road.... Thinking about your goals 10 years from now, that's a long way away and one of the disadvantage of thinking that far ahead is that, it can actually demotivate you in the moment because it feels so far away but if you work it backwards and live like you're at the headlights then you won't have paralysis by your analysis of what's coming in 10 years time.

Often people overthink everything they need to do, but in reality they just need to start a path or just pave a way and that's why this quote is popular “journey of a thousand miles begins with a step" .... If you think you're goals are too big and feel demotivated what might be happening is that you might be thinking of mile 1000 while you should be thinking about mile 1, when you take a step then you should think about next step because I don't see any reason you worrying about the 1000th step while you haven't taken the first one yet.

The explanation given about is the best way to describe the paralysis by analysis, overthinking sometimes makes us do nothing..... There are two things that set us back in taking actions when it involves our goals which are

1. We make it bigger than actually how it is and way harder than actual

2. A lot of us has never actually done it before; we humans like to look into the past for proof of stuffs we've done before but if you're on the path of doing what you haven't done before, you won't have any examples of it and that's when the feeling or thought of “i don't feel like I can do this" comes in action.

Let me give a great example of living your life in the headlights and if you get this, I'm sure you could understand my point

I live in Lagos and I wanted to travel to my friends house at night who lives at Ondo state, when I get into my car I'm definitely not going to see his house and approximately it could take me 3hra by driving to his house. We don't get to jump into our car at night to travel to a destination so far out Because we might get anxious and this is because everywhere is dark and can't see the entire route while travelling.

And when we can't see the entire route, we turn on the headlights and Because of this, we see the next 90-100ft ahead of us and we just drive those hundred feet and continuously as wee complete 100ft we face another 100ft and that's how it's when you're taking actions towards your goals and this is what explain living your life as headlights, you might not see the entire route but what matters is how you kept on moving in the direction of where you are going.

What should be on our mind Is, what do we need today to make us closer to our goals?...like today I was thinking of what to write to publish here on read.cash and I started thinking of what to write down and I notice myself getting caught up in all the stuffs I needed to do and for several hours I couldn't do anything and at some point I just told myself “what do I need to do now?" And few minutes later I found myself writing this article and that's how the topic came into reality, though the day is gone but at least I made a little progress.

It was kinda hard to get what I was writing together but as I kept on writing, every words and ideas begins to pop in and that's what's important to realize, is that you have to start in life and take action sometimes because that might be the motivation we need.... What we should do when we start overthinking sometimes is just take action and that's what I did today when we went out on the planned family outing I wrote about in the previous article, we finally got to the point I had to swim and being scared of water I started thinking about maybe I should do my workout first, or try some breathing exercise before I jump into the pool and suddenly I just said f**k it and I jumped into the pool, though I almost drown 😂😂.

What I noticed was that I knew was thinking more into the future and I just had to retify it by jumping into the pool and figure it out and that's how our life should be, too many people are out there planning and over planning and they are even planning to plan and they never for once take actions and in that process they keep themselves busy with their thoughts without being productive.

A lot of successful people are always ready to go and through the way they figure things out but the ones that are striving or struggling are the ones that don't want to go unless everything is perfect and they do series of researches just to avoid making errors and they fail to forget that mistakes are one of the routes to success because "you can't figure out what you're supposed to do unless you figure out what you're not supposed to do"..... "You can't find yourself until you lost yourself"

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