Quote of the Day

...an example of static line jump, from 25OO feet!

"It’s supposed to be hard. If It wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great."

-Jimmy Dugan from A League of Their Own

First, I like to thank to Kathleen for sharing today's quote of the day!

A point to note about this quote is that, nothing worthwhile was easily achieved; regardless of what it is or where it is!

Think about the commodity, Gold, for a second; what do you think will happen if more than adequate amount of gold were allowed to flood into the market? It becomes very very cheap of course, everyone has easily access to it and it will no longer be valued...{could you imagine buying gold at Dollarama!!!?"}

Now apply the above concept to the quote of the day. Your sitting there whining and complaining how bad you have it or how big an obstacle you are facing, if it were easy to do everyone would be doing it, with ease...the reality is that the harder something is to accomplish the greater the immediate short term and long term result.

For one you will feel a great deal of self confidence and happiness for having tackled and triumphed over such a goal...that slowly you begin to tackle larger and more frightening goals...before you realize it the view from the mountain top is much bigger and fulfilling.

On the other hand when you choose to do something easy that everyone easily conquer, you really do not have any feel of triumph or great feelings about yourself...hence, the chances of pursuing other goals is slimmed to none, you begin to say things like, "why bother with it when i know for sure i could do it." The sad thing is a lot of people are stuck here by choice. This is only because they are yet to make a conscious realization that they are able to tackle bigger and more frightening goals.

I can relate to all the above situations...take the example of my cadet career as an example. A lot of cadets resented the idea of jumping out of a perfectly functionally airplane, parachuting, because that feared the worst. As a result they only pursued courses such as international exchanges or role as staff cadet at army cadet summer camp as an escaped. The outcome; the major of all cadets who take this path have an "ok"/ an "alright summer" because it was not challenging enough.

On the other hand, a few army cadets including myself choose to take the path of the greatest resistance. Five straight weeks of early morning and evening heart wrenching physical training {push-ups, chip-ups, long distance running}, constant mental push to the limit...the conquering of ones fear of heights and much more. At the end, out of about 5O army cadets and officers, only about 34 remained who went on to successfully jump out of the sky relying only on a 33 feet parachute to slow there drop...personally the joy of having the badge upon my chest is the greatest of all feelings matched only by a few things in my life. {If you are curious what the para course is all about, watch "Band of Brothers" part one to see what i mean}

Well that is my take on this quote...what is yours? All i ask you for you to observe yourself and the way you act and you doing something worthwhile or are you doing what everybody else is doing, therefore having the same results?

*****Remember if it scares you, do it anyway...but don't forget to use common sense!*****

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