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This Post by Justin Dixon Photo courtesy of Tiago Ribeiro

No matter who you are, no matter how hard you try there will be times that you fail. Every successful person on the planet is intimately familiar with failure, but how do you know when its time to try again, or whether it is time to move on to a new project? How do you know when you’ve done enough, and what does that even mean? Enough for what?

There is a trap that people commonly fall into where none of the results they get are enough for them. When stuck in this trap you can become afraid of disappointing people or that you are not enough. This thought pattern is one of the surest ways to keep yourself from moving forward. So what mindset should be taken to get out of this trap, and how do you keep from falling in?

The first thing that you must accept is that you are enough as you are. No amount of material success can change your being or improve you. No amount of insight can make you more or less worthy of being. No matter how many times you fall you will always have the choice on what you will do next, on how you can handle yourself. No amount of failure can make it so that you are not enough. The standard is that you exist, you have potential, and as long as you do your best that is all that can fairly be asked of you, and that brings me to your challenge.

Your challenge is to live your life to the best of your ability. If you know you can do better than never settle for less than that. Put your genuine effort forward. More importantly though, when you have done everything you know to do. When you’ve given it your all than the most important thing you can learn to do from there is… leave it at that.

We all want to be moving in a positive direction the trouble is no one has the power to see their place in the universe. You do not know what direction is positive or negative, nor do I, and I highly suggest distrusting anyone who says they do.

The real standard for something being enough really is to give it your all, but I know that it doesn’t always seem like enough. Think of it like this. We are all acutely aware of our own limits. Our limits are like walls that we keep on running into again and again and again. When we are trying to move forward, and expand our potential often all we will run into is limits. We have to though. If everything was easy there would be no point push forward. There would be no strain to make us stronger and wiser. Like when you remove gravity it is fun for a little while, but with no force to keep the muscles focused we lose our strength.

Now imagine this same wall, these limits that we keep running into. You break down one limit or find a way around it than you go forward as far as you can until you find yet another limit. All you are seeing is limit after limit after limit. What you are not seeing however is how far you’ve come. There will always be limits to hold you back, there will always be a challenge to surmount, and we as humans need this.

The point will come when you are pushing through these limits that you start to become tired. Rest. There comes a time when you will have done all you can. Good work, rest. The challenges of life are not going anywhere, there will still be plenty of walls to face, but when you have really given something your all than let yourself leave it alone. You will get stronger as long as you genuinely try and continually practice. You will have your shot to move past that next barrier, and if you don’t than it is because there is another way for you to go.

I would like to leave you with one of the only prayers I pray for you to consider when you have truly done what you know you can.

“I’ve done everything I can on my end, I don’t know how to go farther, but I’m going to leave the rest to You and believe that something will work out. Amen”

No matter how bad things have been when I’ve left it at that something has always worked out. I’ve eaten on days I shouldn’t of been able to. I’ve had opportunities I never expected come my way, and something has always worked. When you’ve done everything you know how to do, than you have done enough. When you use that prayer than you let it go, and trust that something will work out.

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