Appetite to Climb High
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The natural desire or craving for something is known as “Appetite”. Many successful people were not born with silver spoons in their mouth, rather they thrived hard to succeed amidst arduous challenges.
All they had was a positive attitude of never giving up and craving for success. When I started the second chapter in my life journey, all I had was a tattered twenty rupee note in my ragged blue jeans.
Yet the faith I possessed elevated me to the top of a high mountain. However, though climbing high is a pleasing word to hear, the journey is not at all a bed of roses. That is merely because success demands an unquenchable desire to overcome tough obstacles, unexpected turbulences that throw you out of your comfort zone, capacity issues, constant counter attacks and many other opposing forces coming from the opposite direction.
A person cannot be successful if he allows challenging situations to overcome him and pull him down whilst he is climbing. This may be why Marie Forleo said, “When you are hungry for success, don’t let anyone feed you crap about slowing down”. You could upgrade this statement to “Anyone or Anything”. Just as stale and contaminated food will steal your right to live healthy, a wrong mindset and negative attitude together with people who are a negative influence will similarly pull you down when you try to climb high towards success. When you choose to sit with the winners, you’ll always get to listen to stories and formulae of victory, however if you choose to be with the losers you are bound to be influenced with negativity and escapism.
The higher the level of expectation you desire to climb, the more demanding the mental strength you should possess. Therefore, if you want to climb higher you should undeniably have the appetite to upgrade your mental strength, attitudes, self-awareness and similar characteristics which are directly linked to your body, soul and spirit.
You need to understand that though you see yourself as one person you are an accumulation of three components; the body, soul and spirit thus you should always be aware to handle this trichotomy. If at all you want to climb high and be a winner you should place utmost importance on self-awareness in order to be a winner. When you are aware of yourself it will make it easier for you to craft your growth plans since you know where you are standing at a given moment of time.
You should wake up every morning with a craving for success that should be above and over the basic need to have breakfast. I am not saying that you should forego your routine meals, but you should be even hungrier for success than the food on your table. A person should have a passion to become successful, just as fuel acts as the source of energy for a vehicle to move forward. Every time you fall, that passion will arouse motivation within you to bounce you back and move forward. Dispassionate people are like airless balloons. Unless a balloon is blown it will not meet the original purpose which it was made for.
The beauty of life will be well painted when it’s driven with passion and not with obligation. Always stay hungry even at the lowest point of life so that you will never drift away from your original dreams. Come out of the basic formation of life, which is existence and survival and set your focus on an extended meaning of climbing high and winning the battle of life. YOU, your greatest enemy will always tempt you to settle for the primary plan which is existence or survival because climbing high towards success will always be a demanding option.
Do not settle for the basic plan which life throws at you rather thrive towards a stretched vision of being a winner who could influence many to dream and climb high.
It is When you are hungry that you will run at your highest speed. The speediest motion of a Cheetah will be attained at the peak of his hunger. Likewise, when you are hungry for success your trichotomy; the body, soul and the spirit will utilize its maximum capacity to achieve victory. Therefore, always be hungry for success. On the flipside when you know that your full capacity is inadequate to reach the desired goal, then you will commit further to enhance your capacity which will invariably push you from one level of energy to another.
Once you taste victory and its own ripple benefits, you will undoubtedly become addicted to a lifestyle full of victories. It is always good to get yourself addicted to positive things such as planning, following up, evaluating, exercising, reading and loving people.
Stop feeding your soul with lame excuses, by doing so you will never be able to bear fruit in the garden of life. Stop grumbling about being born to a very poor family, stop blaming your parents for leaving you when you were a kid, stop blaming your wife for leaving you in utter darkness. If you closely study successful characters in this world, they all have gone through either one or another of these issues. Train your body, soul and spirit to see greater victories.
Move forward by leaving aside all what has happened to you in your past. Twenty years ago, I was begging on the streets due to my own faults. But the day I took a strong decision to turnaround in faith, I started to climb greater heights. Even higher than what I ever dreamt of. Therefore, dream of success and live to succeed. Even overcoming failure is a victory. In conclusion I strongly agree with what Eric Thomas said, “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful”