No One Else Can Run Your Race For You.
Every day we get a chance to run it up all over again.
As long as we do that, it is inevitable that one day we will be able to look up, without a single competitor in sight and know that we have fulfilled our potential.
Reaching the end of the race, our goals, a championship. Is promised to no one. All that is promised to us is the journey. Asides from that, we are assured that our efforts are our best bet at achieveing progress because doing nothing is a waste of time that is already, limited.
Are you where you need to be? If no, run!
Still have room to improve? Well then, you need to run!!! Do you still have doubters, naysayers or haters that are bold enough to step to you and voice their negative opinions? If so, you definitely still need to run!!!! Finally, the truth is, the biggest enemy of them all is probably you!!!!
Therefore, above all you need to run away from you!!!! You need to run away from your comfort zone! You need to run away from the norm, because are you really living if you are stuck on automatic like a robot??? You most definitely need to run away from complacency. You’ve achieved some great stuff? Great for you!!!! However, what other great things can you do?!!! Can you help the next person up? Just because your life is all good, what about the next person’s life?!!!
Congratulations, You Won – But – There’s Still Another Race For You To Run.
If you take a step back and take a panoramic view of things you will probably see that there is a whole heap of things you still have left undone. So far you’re just scratching the surface and you have more, way more, miles left for you to run.
Congratulations on surviving the pandemic but arguably, the world is in an even worse place now. With wars, crime, violence and an apparent lack of empathy and human decency, seemingly being all too prevalent. Now of all time’s is the wrong time to be staying still.
Now is the time to run, like Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce to leave an example that the younger generation can follow. Using your family as motivation to do the unprecedented longer than anyone else has.
Making it such than when you do finally hang up your running shoes. You can do so as the greatest of all time.
Run like Usain Bolt.
Even though you may actually loathe all of the hard work and training run anyway. Run and represent for the people you love even, if some of them will one day prove responsible for stealing your hard earning financial income. Run because success is your only option and that success is your way of making the world a better place.
Run because you too can be like Rihanna, Julian Alfred and Thea LaFond Gadson. All three Caribbean women, left their relatively small islands of Barbados, St. Lucia and Dominica (respectively) to make history in Music and Track and Field that can never be erased!!!! That is, come from a small Caribbean island and yet achieve success that resonates globally. Marileidy Paulino and Kiriani James have proven themselves to be champions in the field of 400 Metres but none of it was given to them. The only way all of these Outliers were able to do the unprecedented was for all of them to commit to running their race, time and time again. This is precisely the same way that any of us will be able to reach any of our goals. Consistent effort is the only way we can reach from here, point A, to there, point B.
How It Started, Versus, How It’s Going!!!!
Talk is only relevant to the extent that it influences action!!!! (Okay, okay, social benefits aside loool). The only thing that can actually stop you from getting to where you want to be is you. There is no guarantee that you will reach your intended final destination. However, chances are that if you head in the direction of your intended final destination, you will end up closer than if you did nothing at all.
The more you try, is the more you separate yourself from the many that never ever even make it to the action phase. If there is a reason why there are so many haters and such negativity in the world. It is because far too many people have spare time and energy to spend on hating because they chose against going after what they want. They have none of the joy that comes from being on the journey towards their desires.
There was a time when the Caribbean was no where to be seen when it came to track and field. We had no legacy. No track record (pun unintended) of excellence or achievement in track and field. However, take a look at us now!!!!
Now, Caribbean athletes from all over the Caribbean are having success. There literally is too much success for any one article to be able to be able to cover it or do it justice. Let that be motivation to you to run your race today and everyday that you are alive because that’s how winning is done and winning is the only option.
