When the road tires you, remember what it was that made you start your walk.
Walking through life, without a doubt, presents sections where physical, mental or spiritual fatigue makes moving forward very heavy, it is at that moment where common sense should lead us to make the decisions that allow us, while continuing to advance, to recover the forces necessary to continue our walk.
Imagine a trip of several days with freezing temperatures, with winds that hit you constantly, with a growing lack of oxygen and with an increasingly demanding effort, this is what Sir Edmund Percival Hillary lived during his ascent for several days of 8,848 meters Everest, from which it reached its peak on May 29, 1953.
Like the previous example, during our lives we face challenges that sometimes seem insurmountable and that are not conquered immediately but require days and sometimes even years. In the same way as the previous example, this fight will require for physical, mental and spiritual health, that you take breaks in between in order to recharge your batteries.
The subject of rest, of stopping the march for a moment, of taking a breath, is an issue that is seldom addressed in motivational questions since they are focused on energizing the person to reach the goal, but a good A coach, a good leader, a good guide knows that it is necessary and even indispensable to take a break and this for a very practical reason: performance is not the same when tired.
We have all heard the urgent advice not to drive tired when traveling by road vehicle, the reason is that reflexes decrease and the risk of having an accident increases. In the same way in life, driving tired, that is, wanting to continue moving forward despite the fatigue that is experienced, can lead to a decrease in reflexes, understanding by reflexes the ability to make good decisions, to resist the attacks of life, and to act in a timely manner.
Now, this rest is not synonymous with giving up, going back to the initial story of the conquest of Everest, we see how the ascent of several days was interspersed with scheduled breaks, but once the forces were recharged, the trip continued then in the Look, you had what started the odyssey.
In the same way, when we start something, whatever, a project, a goal, a dream, a more or less clear objective is established, but behind the objective at the time there are a series of intangible, internal, personal motivations that they start that walk. These motivations can be brought back to mind when fatigue is present to make walking see and revalue.
The above is a bit complicated because the same motivations have a very strong emotional character, a character that can be diluted over time leaving only the rational part of the objective, that is, what we want to achieve, but why or what is that for emotional that initially pushed us to begin the conquest of that dream.
Then then, the practical suggestion is that before, as it is colloquially said, throw in the towel, take some time to calmly recall the inner motives that moved us toward the challenge you face.
The conquest of every dream takes two forces, the one that impels us to achieve the goal set and the one that pulls us to stop our progress, when this balance tends to fatigue, discouragement and unease, we must remember, take into account and rekindle the initial motives that prompted our walk, in other words, when the road tires you, remember what made you start your walk.
