Are You Moving in the Right Direction…Or Not Moving At All?

Are You Moving in the Right Direction…Or Not Moving At All?

Thursday, 04 November 2010 09:28 Duane L. Lawton

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I’ve always liked the lyrics from “It’s Like That” (from Vol, 2 Hard Knock Life) because it’s an accurate statement of what happens too often in life. Many people live their lives on a treadmill- they’re not moving. They’re not making progress. You can’t get anywhere in life if you’re standing still. Think about how a treadmill works: you move fast but you don’t actually get anywhere. This is exactly what’s happening to many of us. We’re always doing something but what we do sadly amounts to nothing. People will talk fast and walk fast and carry themselves as if they’re living in the fast lane, but it’s all a fraud. Running on a treadmill is not the same as running a race. Some people falsely believe they’re moving forward when they’re actually not moving at all or even going backwards! It’s difficult to determine the progress you’re making if your life is on a treadmill. Living life in this way is counterproductive to your progress.

Life’s like a treadmill
Niggas running in place
Getting nowhere fast, a whole year done past
I vowed to never stop winning
‘Til the earth stop spinning

“It’s Like That”

You can be living your life everyday and not actually living at all. Some of us do the bare minimum to get through each day. But it takes great commitment and effort to make real, life-changing progress. I can definitely relate to these lyrics because I’ve found myself “getting nowhere fast” throughout various periods in my life. Life is short and before you know it, “a whole year” (or decades!) will past and you will find yourself in the same predicament today that you were in a year earlier. Think about what happens at the start of every year. We all make our New Year’s resolutions, goals that we want to accomplish during the year. We end up accomplishing some of our goals and fail to meet others. It takes discipline, patience, commitment and determination to accomplish goals.

Goa... ls aren’t accomplished by running in place. We all have to get our lives off the treadmill and get moving. I would encourage you to make a personal vow to “never stop winning” in life. But you can’t win if you don’t play the game. You must get off that treadmill if you want to make actual moves in your life.