“When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.”
-Thomas Edison
Have you ever wished you could predict the future? For certain circumstances, it would be nice to know in advance how a particular situation was going to turn out.
What would you say if I told you that you could predict the future? I’d be crazy, right? But isn’t setting a goal like a predicting a future event? When we set a goal, we state (and write down so that our goal becomes more concrete!) that we will achieve a particular objective by a specified date. By setting a goal, we are predicting the accomplishment of a task, but setting the goal doesn’t mean that it is necessarily going to happen. What makes our prediction true are the actions we take to prepare ourselves to accomplish our goals.
If you want to achieve a goal, you need to take the action necessary to see that you reach your goal. That’s why I workout each day. I may not feel like running today, but I know that running today will put me in a better position to succeed in running 26.2 miles come October. Action is what transforms the dreamer into the achiever. The dreamer has great intentions, but the achiever knows how to take action to make his dream a reality.
When pursuing a long-term goal, such as running a marathon, persistence is essential. When a goal is far away, it is very easy to lose motivation or become distracted. Skipping a day doesn’t seem quite as harmful when you still have seven months to train, but we mustn’t fall prey to this way of thinking. Each day is precious. Each day is a gift given by God, 24 hours in which we have the opportunity to make ourselves better than yesterday. If we put a little effort each day into progressing towards a worthy goal, that little effort adds up over several months. Just as a small amount of money can compound into a large sum over time, so to does your effort today greatly impact your success in the future.
Persist in your actions to reach your goals today. Persist tomorrow. Persist the next day. Keep on persisting, and soon enough you’ll find out when you reach your goals that you really can predict the future!
TODAY’S WORKOUT:
Warm-up 1 mile
Run 3 miles
Cool down ½ mile
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