We are often defined by the bar we set ourselves. That bar totally determines what we achieve in life, how great we become, how ambitious we are.
I set the bar very very high when I was very young and guess what it paid off handsomely. Although it hasn't always been that way since my last few posts discussed where the lines are blurred between setting the bar high and building Castles in the sky. So let me take you guys through the process :-
1) Parents tell us to set the bar high when we are children, dream big they say, and so we do
2) As you grow up, you set certain limits, the world sets limits, you define yourself by a set of rules, now depending on how high you set the bar when you were a kid there may be more or less rules.
Ex :- Don't walk naked in public
3) At some point the truth stings like a bee. Your goals are actually far off, seems impossible to reach them. Here most people choose to give up and they do the most dangerous thing a human being could ever do, They become complacent and settle.
Others may choose to lower the bar, as the famous saying goes. 'Shoot for the stars, you'll land somewhere in the moon'
Well that's what I did, and by no means is it over yet.
4) The funny thing is that it's a cycle, at least for me, the bar gets raised and lowered, raised and lowered, there has got to be a compromise somewhere but if there's one thing you should pray for, is that you never find this compromise.
I set the bar very very high when I was very young and guess what it paid off handsomely. Although it hasn't always been that way since my last few posts discussed where the lines are blurred between setting the bar high and building Castles in the sky. So let me take you guys through the process :-
1) Parents tell us to set the bar high when we are children, dream big they say, and so we do
2) As you grow up, you set certain limits, the world sets limits, you define yourself by a set of rules, now depending on how high you set the bar when you were a kid there may be more or less rules.
Ex :- Don't walk naked in public
3) At some point the truth stings like a bee. Your goals are actually far off, seems impossible to reach them. Here most people choose to give up and they do the most dangerous thing a human being could ever do, They become complacent and settle.
Others may choose to lower the bar, as the famous saying goes. 'Shoot for the stars, you'll land somewhere in the moon'
Well that's what I did, and by no means is it over yet.
4) The funny thing is that it's a cycle, at least for me, the bar gets raised and lowered, raised and lowered, there has got to be a compromise somewhere but if there's one thing you should pray for, is that you never find this compromise.
