Success = Failures + Frustrations?

Have you ever thought what success really means to you? For some people, success is making lots of money, for another success is to take action towards achieving goals. Someone else may define success as fulfilling self potential, to become rich, to win big and make others jealous. Other more direct and simple “successes” could be to laugh often and much, to gain respects from other people, to get married and have lots of children, to appreciate friendship and to stay healthy and beauty.

To me, success simply means knowing what you want, take actions and along the way, manage your frustration! One of my goals set earlier this year was to trim down my body weight in order to stay healthy and look sexier. I therefore started to head back to the gym on regular basis, to get sweat and burn excess calories. I normally go for serious cardio workouts, started of with weight lifting and/or rowing, then heading to cycling before stepping unto the treadmill for a real good stretch.

Well, life is always filled with a series of sweet as well as nasty surprises. As I’ve managed to trim down a steady 1.5kg/mth of weight for the past 2 months, which is very encouraging and satisfying, I decided to double-up my efforts by running faster and further last week, hoping to reach 6KM within 30minutes – a rather ambitious goal to achieve for a 87kg, 35 year-old man of me! True enough, I injured myself, now grounded for at least 4-6 weeks due to runner’s knee. Instead of heading to the gym for burning calories, I’m now going for physiotherapy and acupuncture for faster recovery. Sigh!

Nevertheless, I’ve learned a good lesson here – in order to achieve goals and be successful, I need to dream big. Along the way, I may encounter a lot of failures and frustrations. Please therefore stay cool, don’t give up, keep focus and discipline my frustrations. Sooner or later, I’ll surely experience my desired breakthrough in life.

Gambate my friend!