Your Dreams Are More Important Than Your Iphone

Have you ever been in a position where you really need your phone and it’s low battery, you can’t find a plug or you don’t have a charger on you and it feels like your life’s ending.

First off it’s crazy how much we now have to rely upon our phones for, mine really doesn’t get any rest time. She is exhausted.

We will rush around trying to find somewhere to plug it in, or we’ll panic in search of our charger and god forbid we have lost it! Then who knows what will happen. We do all of this and in these moments it’s all we care about, it’s all we can think about because right in that moment it’s all consuming and nothing else matters.

The world is a place now which phones are pretty much a necessity due to everything we do on them, booking tickets, showing tickets, paying the bill, calling home and so much more.

So it makes sense to why we feel that sense of urgency when the battery % goes red.

What about if we thought this intensely about reaching our goals, what if not reaching them was as scary as losing our phone charger. I wonder if we would lack urgency then? Would it lead to them being higher in our list of priorities.

If we cared as much about our higher purpose as we do about having a higher battery percentage. Would we then give more into our everyday, towards the stepping stones that will in turn take us up to the top of the hill. Where our full potential lies.

I speak for myself too when I say that sometimes urgency is necessary to get things done, the cortisol spike that comes from the stress of a deadline is sometimes very much needed to actually get.things.done.

I find it difficult to work as hard when there is no deadline, no structure in place or a time a day where I know a goal will be met.

Working out has helped with this because it’s a never ending process. You don’t work out everyday until a certain day, you workout forever. Fitness has to be maintained to be beneficial therefore there is no end date, no deadline ahead where you just simply stop.

If you just simply stopped forever then there was no point in starting, we lose muscle mass, muscle memory doesn’t last forever, and our fitness level depletes. The journey is ongoing and that teaches you that sometimes there will be no end goal, it’s ever moving, going up in increments because once you’ve done something long enough it becomes easy so you set a new goal, new tasks to complete and so on. It keeps going up, you keep improving.

Where as with other types of goals, maybe career focused, you can set a time a date but if you yourself have put that deadline in place it’s harder to be accountable for it. It’s just you that knows about it. When thinking about the steps we want to make in our life, I don’t believe we should share all details, but in some way we should tell a person we trust to increase the accountability level for ourselves. We need to need it as much as we NEED our charger in that moment of stress. The only way we can do this is understanding why we need to reach that goal so badly, the precedent it holds in our life, why we can’t live without reaching that step, to be held accountable is something we need but rarely know that we need. It’s a massive factor in our personal development and growth, it’s sometimes what can get us through the ‘I want to give up stage’.

You will have so many days that your goals feel a little less important than others but these are the days where that remembrance of the need for urgency comes in to play. Treat it as though it’s now or never and you need it now! Never is never going to happen. Having a plan B distracts you from plan A and that’s a distraction you do not need. It leaves room for quitting and quitting isn’t on the cards.

Your need to reach your full potential HAS to be as high as your need to get that phone as far away from 1% as it can be.

Sending Love

K.