The realities of today’s living show that life itself is becoming more and more demanding and insatiable. Today, people need to put in more time, energy, knowledge and money to be able to make a noticeable mark in their endeavors.
Gone are the days when just being good at a thing suffices, today, being the best, and remaining so, is the order of the day. It is a competition, and only the strongest and fittest will survive. There is no room for mediocrity and people have to go the extra mile and even break their backs if they will survive.
Going the extra mile to achieve your dream or goal means that you must put in special, unique, dynamic and innovative effort into your endeavors if ever you will succeed. Extraordinary achievement requires extraordinary effort as no good thing comes easy.
You may have to be up studying when your classmates are enjoying their sleep, work overtime when your colleagues are safe and sound with their families, and you will need to act while others are merely wishing.
The sad news is however that no matter the extra mile you go towards achieving your dream or goals, you will still be bedeviled by obstacles. You must develop new strategies, programs, methods, or even trick for overcoming these obstacles and being a better option than your competitors.
The Major Obstacles to Your Extra Efforts and How to Overcome Them
1. Your Mindset: Today’s highly competitive world requires that you adopt a winning and positive mindset. It will also question the strategies and action plans that you have set out. It will try to usurp whatever successes you may have achieved ordinarily by telling you that your extra efforts will be in vain.
Such negative mindsets may come in the form of self-doubt, non-persistence, fear of taking risks, fear of failure, fear of exploring other horizons, procrastination, etc. You must cultivate a ‘never-say-never’ and ‘everything is possible’ mindset if you must succeed. You must be able to maintain a positive mindset and be willing to think “out of the box.”
2. Rapid development in Computer and Information Technology: The present computer and information age is always giving modern people a run for their money. The onset of the internet and its many innovative developments have made it necessary that people must go the extra mile if their dreams and goals are to be achieved.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – a brainchild of the rapidly developing Computer and Information Technology age, has put up humans on a race against machines. Robots are constantly striving to take over jobs, chores, and even relationships! There is also a rapid spread of information in social media blogs, online communities in contemporary times.
To overcome these obstacles and challenges, you must be abreast with the new updates, software, apps, and web tools that are computer and software engineers churn out every day. You must acquire and apply effective social media management tools if you must succeed.
It is important that you understand that despite the obstacles that life throws at you, you still have a chance of succeeding.
