Wednesday 11 March 2015

Take the Bull by the Horn


Taking the bull by the horn is a very scary and hard thing to do that a lot of us wouldn't dare think of it not to talk of physically doing it.

I've found myself saying that statement to a lot of people recently and even to myself and tonight I really sat down to think about what it really means and represents.

Success does not come easy, behind every success story there are sacrifices, obstacles, trials, failures, tears, shut doors, disappointments, betrayal and I can go on and on. But to eventually become a success, you have to be able to look all these things in the eye and deal with them and overcome them and keep pushing forward regardless. On facing these things, sometimes we become discouraged, frustrated, angry and a lot of times we feel like giving up. The truth is in spite of all these things and how we might feel at these times, we need to keep pushing forward, somehow we need to find that inner strength to keep fighting. We NEED TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORN.

If we don't, then that dream would never become a reality, that product would never be manufactured, that book would never be written, that company would never be founded, that Job would elude you. Whatever it is, no matter how tough it gets, you need to keep trying and pushing and one day that SUCCESS would be yours.

With everything I have been able to achieve, I always found out that at the edge of my breakthorugh is when the pressure is worse, that's when I feel like quitting, that is the point where i feel like I can no longer continue but the key is to persevere beyond that point and once you can get past that breaking point, somehow victory comes and even if victory does not happen, I find that I become stronger and gain more inner strength to continue.

I love Thomas Edison, a guy who failed 999 times at inventing the light bulb but he was quoted to have said that he learnt 999 ways on what to do better. That is classic. The point is to see the lessons in our failures and keep pressing on. It is also reported how his laboratory burnt down when he was in his sixties, apparently he told his children to go get their mother because she would never see a fire like that again in her lifetime. He still rebuilt his laboratory after the tragedy. He said he figured he would live till about a hundred, what would he be doing if he didn't rebuild his laboratory and continue his work. Point is he looked troubles and disaster in the face and took the bull by the horn and he was unstoppable.

Taking the bull by the horn makes us an unstoppable force not because we have all the answers or can do it all by our strength but somehow no matter what comes our way, we keep pressing on, we keep fighting on, we keep praying through, we hold on to faith and hope knowing that after it all, there lies a better tomorrow.

My advice "TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORN"