Week 07

               Moving forward with a driving passion is necessary for anything that you do in your lifetime. Having a passion is beneficial to anything that you want to do in your life. The one that resonates with me is being proactive. Being proactive is practicing and continuing to improve. You cannot be idle during this life. If you want to do something and have a true passion for it, it makes it easy to practice. Practicing something regularly is the only way to get better at it. Enjoying something makes it something that you do not dread doing, therefore you will actively find time to do it. Not only will you find time to do it, but often you will lose track of time when practicing or continuing to improve in your passion. Along with that, time is a valuable thing in this lifetime, and we need to use it wisely. Time is not something that we can go into debt for, and we cannot get the time back. Mastery is something that is not going to happen overnight, very similar to becoming a disciple of Christ. It takes time and continuous improvement on our part. We also do not need to do it alone; we can learn and teach each other. We were never meant to do it alone. We have leaders, family, peers, friends, and most importantly Heavenly Father. We were all given strengths and weaknesses so we can help each other to where and who we wanted to be. It is going to be a process, and during that process, there are going to be big improvements. You are also going to feel that you plateaued and not improving as fast as you want to, this is part of the process. Just because you are not improving as fast as you want to, does not mean that you should stop practicing and quit. "Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." Lance Armstrong. There is also another quote from a Marvel movie that says, “Pain only makes us stronger”. Both quotes are basically saying that pain is necessary to improve, this includes both emotional and physical. Pain, or feeling discomfort, is how we know we are doing something right, being that we are pushing past our limits. This is because if we don’t, we will never improve and stay on the plateau.