...on second chances!

Dearest readers,

my loyal followers already know what to do with the year closing. They already know how to get things started, how to keep the momentum going, they already know how to turn lead into gold* and rise. But what about the ones who come up short, are frustrated, and wonder why none of this sh*t is working? In the last veritable, 24-carat #MomentumToGo post I want to stress something that got caught up in the whirlwind of hot pursuit: the secondary protocol!

In most of my life, especially where I am right now, there has been little or no room for mistakes and every single day demands my everything. But what shall we—who are constantly on the rise—do when mistakes happen? We’re all human and, whether we want to admit it or not, full of flaws. Mistakes happen. I was always certain that “[a] lifetime isn’t forever, so [you would have to] take the first chance, don’t wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren’t second chances!” (C. JoyBell C.)—truth being told.

However, if you did mess something up, don’t be discouraged, because life wasn’t meant to be easy, rising was never meant to be easy. If rising were easy, why wouldn’t everyone do it already, and why are you not at the top yet? C. JoyBell C. writes further: “And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance at something you didn’t take a first chance at? That’s true failing.” We must understand that nothing is handed to us, the little things we have, passion, determination, perseverance, all of that is our lead. It’s on us to turn that into gold, where knockbacks are simply a recurring part in the process. For someone who always thought poorly of second chances I must say these are, in fact, the most valuable, because we all learn from mistakes and get to do it better the next time around.

With first chances falling by the wayside it is natural to be frustrated. Bear in mind you are only human, we all are, but take courage and work toward a second chance, earn it, do it better next time. Sometimes missed opportunities and failed first chances are the only way to make second chances happen. How dare you wait for a second chance, knowing you haven’t even taken the first chance?

We shouldn’t strive for a perfect season, but be aware that no rookie QB makes it to the post season with a 16-0 record, no scores allowed on defense, and every drive ending in a TD. What would life be, if everything worked the first time? How would we learn? How would we walk with every road already paved, what would be the point, what would be our purpose?

We must pave our roads, step by step, piece by piece, and build our walls brick by brick. And you can easily think in binaries here, there is no high without a low, no success without failure, no rise without a fall, just as there is no light without darkness. If you want to rise like the Phoenix, I suggest you must first fall to ashes, because if you were to just fly that'd be all you're doing, right next to anyone else who's doing just the same. You want life to be easy? Well, then make it as easy as a Luke Bryan tune, M-O-V-E and love it when you get that deed!

*Big S/O to my brother Rich. Check out #AllThisGold