Don’t Burn Out!

Don’t Burn Out!

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
---Frank Tyger

"Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind."
---Zig Ziglar

It is so amazing that many people have been able to get this far to where they are today, celebrating that they are a year older every new year and have been able to do many little things successfully until now, and still don’t trust that ability to go on when that feeling of burning out creep in. Man has been designed to be able to do great and mighty things they cast their mind on, even those things our mind cannot quantify and in our own reasoning, which we feel our strength can’t actualize.

We always feel excited when we initially set our goals and we cook up plans to achieve them. After a while the feelings of burning out before actualizing the goals start to find its way into your heart and cloud your beautiful imagination of the colorful success and fulfillment that comes with reaching your goals. The ill-thought of not being good enough to make it happen and fit to accomplish all the phases of the plans you set to get your goals realized, always come to attack your mind to hold you back from going on, it comes to make you feel burnt out. 

Many times when you start to have that feeling of burning out, it is because of the things you allowed, growing on your mind. Our mind is so sensitive that, every single seed of thought you allow on it, will germinate and produce a fruit showcasing the same characteristics of the seed. Great thoughts lead to great decisions; great actions emanate from great decisions and great actions breeds great results and successes; and great successes is no doubt a sweet fulfillment to man’s soul. The life we live is a product of the celebrations of thoughts on our mind. 

It can be very frustrating when you have the “I will burn out” thoughts harassing your mind. You are in charge of your mind and you alone have the key to the door at the entrance of your heart, you have a choice of allowing the good thoughts and bounce away the bad thoughts and vice-versa. This is the good news i have for you today, you are well designed, qualified and have the ability to always go on and make whatever you set your mind on come to reality. You can’t burn out, because you will not allow any negative thing to have a way into your mind. You need to fill your heart with positive thoughts, let it be the food to your soul and let it eject all negative and frustrating thoughts that tries to limit you, keep you away from your dreams and make you dump your goals. If you allow negative thoughts to keep tormenting you, it will devastate and cripple you, and you lose the happiness of continue working on your goals.

Moving on and refusing to burn out, doesn’t have to be fast and furious, slow and steady wins the game, has ever been true. What matter most is your persistence, giving your goals, dreams and visions all it requires to make it a reality. Say to yourself, i will never burn out, i will follow my dreams till they become a reality, nothing will hinder me and i will not allow anything to frustrate my decisions and actions i take towards my goals. My watchword from now on is “No Retreat No Surrender”.

There are times when i feel like I can’t go on anymore and the feeling of burning out starts to creep in, then i remember the saying in Portuguese “Aluta Continua Victoria Ascerta” which means “Struggle continue, Victory is certain”, this always keep me going because the more i try and keep on, the higher my assurance of success. Every good thing in life comes with its challenges, and you must be ready to pay the sacrifice to see your goals to the end and then you have a cause to celebrate.

Success is a journey and you have to continue on your voyage without fear and doubt with great enthusiasm, determination and diligence. Happy people are people that continue working on little things that contribute to the success of their goals, dreams and visions in life, how fast you are doesn’t matter but you have to get there. You can only be miserable in life when you have no meaningful or worthwhile thing you do to make your life go on. Don’t stop doing even those meaningful little things now, they add up to make you have a fulfilled ending.

Don’t burn out, just fire on, even if it is slow and steady. Keep your little light shinning, the world would have no choice but notice you. You are blessed in the day and Night to do the unthinkable!

God Loves ♥ You

Ogundipe Clement Shola

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