Light A Spark

Napoleon Hill once said, ~The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as small fire makes a small amount of heat.~ If you think about it, achieving any type/sort of personal and/or professional success is like creating a flame you’re trying to ignite that was initially sparked by an idea. It’s an idea you hope doesn’t prematurely fizzle out, so to speak, too quickly before it has been given time to burn. For it’s most definitely not an easy process to undertake as you’re, in a sense, doing it the old school surviving in the wilderness way. A way in which you’re metaphorically rubbing two sticks together in hopes of generating enough heat and friction in not only creating one’s own fiery success, but having the desire to constantly stoke the flames so it won’t ever completely die out.

As I said before, when it comes to achieving any type/sort of personal and/or professional success is like metaphorically rubbing two together in hopes of creating a flame you’re trying to ignite that initially sparked an idea or a number of ideas. Of course, it can certainly be a mentally rather than physically exhausting situation indeed as you’re doing your best in creating the friction needed to produce the sparks of potential rough ideas in order to fully ignite the embers of that one main idea. In other words, finding out through the process of elimination of what either works or doesn’t work. Thinking about it further, once you’re able to focus on that one idea that hopefully works the back and forth friction of being able to find a comfortable groove that doesn’t cause you to end up mentally burning yourself out, in a manner of speaking.

Without a doubt, being able to successfully achieve lighting a fire simply by rubbing two sticks together can certainly be a physically daunting task to say the least. However, it’s absolutely worth it when you’re actually able to do it to the point where you feel a sense of pride and accomplishment that you were able to do it all by yourself. Essentially, it’s that same desire in which a person mentally pushes himself/herself into sparking a potentially successful metaphorical flame in hopes of feeling that same heat of pride and accomplishment. Unfortunately, it’s often not the case as every person has at some point or another failed in achieving to create any sparks whatsoever thus leaving us, for all intents and purposes, with a face full of smoke representing anger, annoyed frustration, as well as mental exhaustion.

Let me ask this question to those who have tried rubbing two sticks together to get a fire going, how long did it take you before it finally lit up? For the most part, there is a tremendous amount of patience one goes mentally through in trying to metaphorically rub the two sticks together in one’s own mind in hopes of sparking up potential ideas, which takes time to heat up. True, you don’t want to mentally overexert yourself that you unfortunately make the mistake of trying to force those aforementioned sparks of ideas to happen. What it primarily comes down to is simply walking away/taking a step back so you can take the time to mentally regroup so that when you’re refocused you’ll be able to not just get a fresh perspective, but possibly figuring out a whole new angle that positively rather negatively works to your advantage.

In retrospect, my personal desire to achieve a mental journey that started nearly 30 years ago still holds strong as it relates to the Yodaisms I’ve written, which has been a challenging experience. Granted, there are a certain number of them that don’t necessarily have as much heat as the ones that continue to burn hotter and brighter, which I’m profoundly proud of. Ultimately, I’ve kept the friction within my own mind going with the two metaphorical two sticks in hopes of setting ablaze a new achievement I’ve patiently set forth for myself as this Yodaism marks my 900th. In the end, although I consider myself a mere amateur writer I have prided myself in being able to somehow mentally and/or emotionally light a spark with those who have felt and continue to feel the heat as I push forward to reach the next desired benchmark…1,000 Yodaisms.