Everyone has limits. But we never know our limits, until our skills have been put to test. Never say: “This is all I can do, unless you’ve tried to do it.” Do you know that humans use only 10% of their brain? While much more you can do. You have the resources. You just need to find it and the first place to look into is within yourself.
Our skills double, when we face danger. Then we see, hear, smell and move faster. It shows that we’re capable to act and do much more than we think. We are just too afraid at times. But what are we afraid of? Are we afraid, we may actually find our true strengths? Or is it, we just need to be pushed to find our true potential.
“What is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?”
Some of us aren’t afraid. We just aren’t bothered. ‘So what, I’m weak? So what, I am not using my abilities to their best?” These are questions that can never be answered. But think about it a while; if everyone starts asking you the same question, how will you feel? If all the great leader fuss ‘So what, the country is unhappy?’, if your grocer yells ‘So what, you’re hungry?’, if your garbage collector tells ‘So what, your home is dirty?’; pointing their fingers to you, how you sense?
Replace that acidic “So what?” with the hopeful “What if?”
“What if you become someone great worth remembering?”
“What if you can make people proud of you?”
The thing that’s worse than quitting or failing is – being complacent. Believing that you are weak and that’s all you are capable of. When you start to say, “This is the way I am and there’s nothing I can do about it”, that is when you hit rock bottom. No one can help you in such a situation. Even the skill that you’ve mastered will be a waste with such an attitude. Believe in yourself, and only then you can expect others to believe in you.
Start to care. Even if no one else does care for you. The last person to give up on you should be yourself.
“Putting heart, mind and soul to the smallest act is the secret of success.”
