Love yourself and follow your dreams because if you want it bad enough – and you’re willing to put in the work – it will happen.
So, how bad do you want it?
Are you willing to put in the extra hours, the consistency, that is necessary to achieve your goals?
Do you recognize the fact that success doesn’t come overnight; rather, success is an accumulation of effort put in over a period of time?
If so, put your shoulder to the wheel, and keep pushing toward success, because it will happen.
Join in the Fray: What dream or goal are you working toward? Are you putting in the work?
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Lots of detail out there, a whole country-full. That’s more like traveling, vs just driving.
So much to be said for the scenic route . . . . I take certain road trips fairly often and I like to listen to books on CD. I try to make a point of shutting them off and just looking at the scenery. Inevitably, I always see something I missed the last time I drove to my destination.
That summer i made an effort to take smaller roads vs the Interstates, you get to see the country instead of regional variations on “Interstate ___ Business Loop,” with the same franchises. I did that when i moved to California 16 months earlier, and ii changed a bunch in those 16 months, including developing a taste for backroad.:-)
Sounds like a cool summer! I have a cousin who’s a truck driver, and he can tell you all the best Mom & Pop and/or “hole in the wall” places to eat in small towns across the U.S. (He can also tell you all the back roads leading to major highways from almost anywhere in the country!)
True, people often need an idea of a destination before they embark on a journey, and there’s nothing wrong with having one, as long as you don’t insist upon seeing everything preceding the “IT’ as a barrier to be broken through and nothing else. I had the interesting experience of traveling in my car for 10 weeks during Summer ’71, no real destination, ended up in Maine, and then there was a destination, back home to Berkeley, though i still took a couple of weeks doing that. Learned a lot.
I agree – it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. The “IT” doesn’t and won’t change you – the blood, sweat and tears you go through to get there is what makes the difference. The problem is that so many people don’t even make strides in pursuit of “it” – they keep dreaming or praying yet never put any “legs” on those dreams and prayers. They don’t even get to enjoy the journey because they never embark!
I’m gonna do something awful, and throw a fly into the ointment. The “IT” cannot be everything. You have to see the journey as being worthwhile in itself, a learning and growing experience. Every “IT” will turn out disappointing if you expect to see everything change once you get there. How are you getting there? Learning about that and making that as important as getting to the goals will help attaining the goals that much less turbulent the next time, if not easier.