Where's my finishing line?

Have you ever ran a 1.5km race and just sped up at the second lap because you thought the race was over? Well, with a slight grin on my face, I shyly admit that I have indeed done that. With the spectators cheering on you as you hit the last 100m of that 400m race circuit, you think to yourself that with the finishing line in sight, that perhaps this race is over and you're ahead of the pack. But before you know it, those cheers are merely a distraction that throws you off your target. It is really that easy to be distracted from reality. Yes, the spectators meant well, but it was I who chose to lose my focus and got sidetracked. In case you were wondering, this did cost me a medal!

Point is, in life, there are ample of things that could draw you away from your goal, even without you realising it. Therefore, it is extremely important to stay connected to yourself and to know exactly what you want to achieve at the end of the line.

For me, the best way to go about this is to get my priorities straight. How do you know what your priorities are? This I would say really differs among individuals. For me, at the top of my list, is my family's welfare. After that, of course, that's always that dream career that everyone of us seek to have. For you, it might be different. Perhaps number one for you would be to own that house by the beach, or  maybe it would be to drive around in that awesome car. Either way, you need to be clear about what you want at any point in time. I'm not saying that once you've made a list, it will never change. That's definitely not the case. Number ones would always change depending on the circumstances. But the idea is to know what exactly it is that is utmost important to you.


With sheer determination and a bucket full of will power, anything is possible. The sky would be your limit, if you could just get your priorities right and focus on what you want out of it. Perhaps at times you would feel as if the world had turned its back on only you or your shoulders were really sore from carrying its weight. However, you must then realise that with patience and perseverance, you may soon find yourself accomplishing and ticking off the things on your list as you go. It would be as though someone was helping remove the weight on your shoulder slowly and gently.

This goes for everything in life really. There will always be obstacles and temptations along the way, but it is essential that we stay true to our roots and remember the purpose of everything we are doing. Like the saying goes, don't sweat the small stuffs. Always remember, anything that you reckon should be of paramount importance in your eyes definitely deserves to be treated with full respect and never to be given up on. Once you have instilled this in your mind, without you realising it, all actions that you take would somehow bring you closer to changing your dream into reality. This my friend, is a fact.

A reminder I keep on telling myself- it is not good enough to keep only the finishing line in mind, it is important to calculate and note the path that has been travelled upon as that could be the difference between losing and actually hanging on to a medal.