The Prize

Today I am going to keep it short and simple. We all have prizes in our life in which we strive for, our goals, our ideas, our hope and dreams, those are what I consider prizes. When we remove our eyes from the prize, we change our focus and in changing that focus is when we start feeling lost, or we give into things that aren't what we want.

Have you ever had the feeling to stray from the prize, but when you reach the other thing, it has taken you so far off course that you wonder if you can get back? You feel lost, you feel alone and in the feeling you feel like you have failed at reaching the original prize. What are you goals in life? Do you strive to have a better marriage? A better relationship? A better friendship with the one you love? If those are some of your goals, as soon as you let negative influences in (those would be anything that leads you away from your goal), you have taken your eyes off the prize. Your walking down a different road and that road will lead you to a place in which you may not be able to turn back.

Where do you find yourself in life today? Are you walking away from your prize? Turn back now, because it isn't to late, reach and strive for a better relationship, dig your heals in and know that you can do it, but you have to strive for it. Yes there will be struggles, who doesn't have struggles, yes the one we love may not know how to deal with our pressing in, but if we continue to do it, it becomes the norm, we strive for better and better and in that striving we will grow and change. It is in that, in which we can reach the prize.

Our journey is not completed in a day, it is one day at a time. But if it doesn't seem to be working, we change the environment, not the who we are with. Does that make sense? The more we jump ship, the more we will find ourselves swimming and lost. Today it is about staying the course, strive to do better in all you do and you will see that the ship is worth staying on until the course is completed.