“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Was it the great achievement in your study or career?
Was it 10 years or 2 months ago?
Everybody has done something really good in their lives. However, does everybody do the same great thing on and on? I think not.
And what is your daily routine everyday? Do you enjoy it?
What is at least one thing that you do over and over without realizing you do?
Whether you enjoy or not. It's one example of continuity.
We do continuity in most aspects of our lives without even realize it.
We breathe, eat, drink, sleep and wake up, walk, etc are our routine jobs.
As the time passes by by doing the same thing over and over, we begin to less minded about what we do. Whether it is a must or not. Whether we enjoy or hate it.
Most smokers do want to quit smoking but they keep smoking. Most women do want to quit overeating but they keep overeating.
If we can be very attached to negative routines, we can be attached too to positive ones.
Here's the point!
As the life itself, everything is actually continues. Continuing in status quo or changing become better or worse. Everything continues!
So, we cannot do the great thing only once. We must do things to achieve anything we expect in continual process. We do best thing at once is not better than do the regular thing continually. The opposite does.
For example you'd like to plant an apple tree. You choose the best seed human can find on this planet, you have the most fertile soil on earth, and the best others. You plant it. You leave it while expecting for the years to come you may come back and have a big harvest. Dream on.
See around. Many of kids come. They pass by. The weather, the pests and so. The kids may play with your apple tree. The pests may kill your new young plant. And when you come back 8 or ten years later you will find nothing.
So what if you just plant it in your garden. Everyday you water it, keep it away from pests, and other things farmer may do. You may find the apple tree grows well until you can pick the red sweet apples from it.
The same thing for us, humans, as another example. Our parents do not feed us only on the first day we're born. But they feed us until we can do it by ourselves. They take care of us, guide, teach, love us forever as they can do. They never do the things for just only once. They continue.
As the examples above, we could do the good things as our routine. So we may expect get much better result rather than doing better things only once. Make all the good things as our habit until we do not need any effort anymore to do them at anytime.
Teddy Amry
