The great Martin Luther King once said,
" if you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, whatever you do, you just have to keep moving".
The idea is, you must try whichever way possible to achieve your purpose.
Suffice to say, one of the most beautiful thing about life as we live it is, everyone has a good chance to survive and achieve things. One thing that is sacrosanct though , for you to survive you need to keep moving, keep putting in the efforts. Nobody stands still in the quest for survival.
Most times how well we survive or how much we achieve is a function of so many factors. One of which is effort and how much of it we put into what we do. To get to point B from point A, we obviously need to move.
Life is built in such a way that we always need to put in the works in other to get going. The irony here is, nothing is given. That you put in effort does not necessarily guarantee results will go the way we want, no matter how much we put into that thing. Things could and sometimes do go south. Effort vs reward sometimes is technically always 50/50.
Life can be funny you know. I have had my own first hand experience of how funny situations can pan out irrespective of the efforts put into them. I have failed in some and succeeded in most. The thing is, you never know which is going to give you the result you need. So you never stop trying and putting in the works.
I remember when I decided I was going to learn how to trade the financial market. Forex was the rave at the time. With all the hype it was promoted, you would think it was an overnight success venture. At least so I was made to believe.
After paying for a one on one training, I quickly found out the teacher does not know what he is teaching. He is not even a forex trader. He teaches what he read online. I just wasted that money.
I was determined to learn , I was ready to give it whatever it takes to be good in it. Day and night I would practice. I would be the first at the cyber cafe(never had my own system then) and the last person to leave the cafe in the night. I would practice, and practice every strategy I read up online, especially from Nial fuller. I did this everyday for about six months.
Then I thought I had learnt enough. I opened my first trading account with $1000. I blew it in less than 1 month. I was heart broken but I kept practicing. I vowed I would get it right. Later I opened another live account. Deposited another $1000. Still I lost it, this time even faster than the first time.
But I still kept at it. I still kept practicing until I started getting it right. I started seeing results.
I might not be the best now, but I have improved so much over the years. Everyday I see how much progress I make. All thanks to the efforts I made in the past. I learnt the hard way that trading the financial market is not a sprint but a marathon. Still learning newer strategies and putting in the efforts. Maybe, just maybe one day I will be like some of the best traders out there.
On a lighter note, I remember one effort that didn't favour me but instead brought me premium tears, lol. Pls stay with me.
So I had this huge crush on Juliet in my first level. She was my course mate and very pretty. I was barely 18, never really understood women then. I just needed her to say yes by all means,lol.
As one who had read all the romantic novels available. I tried everything I have read in all of those books. I wrote countless love letters to her. I wrote poems. I bought her love worded cards. I tried talking to her one on one (even though I was shy at that time). I gave her friends gifts to give to her.
I was of the opinion she was yielding to my advances till that unfaithful day she shouted at me to stop disturbing her and leave her alone. That day i cried like a 2 years old, I hated women that day. All my efforts down the drain. I didn't come to schools for almost 1 week.
Funny enough that incident taught me something. I later got to find out she actually liked me back (who no like fine boy) but one of her close friend was burning my cable. She actually started coming closer but by then I was into someone else. Perhaps if I had persisted a bit longer we would have been a thing
You see, One thing with effort is that you don't know when you have given enough of it. Sometimes you put in a little and it yields plenty success. While some other times you can put in so much and it yields nothing.
Maybe we need wisdom and discernment to know when to walk away from putting in more efforts or hold on still with our efforts.
The bottom line is, nothing is given in life. Everything will not always be 100%. Do your thing, never fail to put in the effort, for you never know where the success will come from.
