Bridges

My wish as always is that you will have a Happy Monday and also to wish those celebrating Thanksgiving this week a Happy Thanksgiving.

Success is a goal to be pursued and should not  be viewed as a possible option. It should be pursued with a passion that demand it is either succeed or die in the pursuit of achieving a set goal. This attitude is necessary because life will present obstacles in the path of the pursuit of success to test how committed we are to achieving our goals.

There is a popular song with the words "Don't you burn your bridges behind you, The bridge you burn today you may need it again to cross over."  The pursuit of success demands burning the bridges and eliminating any possibility of returning to a former state. Life makes no provision for returning to the past and the pursuit of success requires making no contingency plans in the event of failure. In the pursuit of success failure is not an option.

Contingency plans are preparation for failure. In fact contingency plans are worse than preparation for failure because contingency plans leaves a person suspended in mid air. The person is neither committed to moving forward or going backward. This is an ample description of doubt. There is the ever present desire to want to return to the past instead of viewing the glory of the future. This is why there is most time the desire to have a bridge to link both.

The great Almighty was well aware of the desire to return to a former lifestyle so he executed a plan which eliminated any possibility of returning to the former lifestyle. We should learn from this example because even when asleep and dreaming the images portrayed by the mind are images of the potential that resides on the inside.

The mind will always project that which it has experienced, seen or imagined. The mind cannot conceptualize things that are outside of it ability to achieve. It is for us to having grasped these thoughts and ideas that are conceived by the mind to tenaciously follow through. This is why it is necessary to break with the past in order to progress into the future.

There will always be the proverbial monkey on the shoulder constantly whispering it cannot be done. That proverbial monkey can be exchanged for the little bird that whispers "There is a way but you will only find it if you persist. 

Happy Thanksgiving and happy pursuit of success.