The value of endurance

When I was in college I used to head a society and I did lots of good things with the student union. If I was to do it again I would stop and enjoy every moment of it. You see the day I finish college I felt an emptiness that I could not really explain. What was weird was that I should have been celebrating but here I was feeling empty. The lesson I learnt from this is that the process of achieving something is more important that the actual achievement.

Really and truly it is in the climb that we really find and shape our selves. It is the trials that we lose what is not necessary for the journey to gain what will be valuable for other similar or greater journeys. In Scot Anderson book “think like a billionaire, become a billionaire” he tell how he was Watching a documentary on discovery channel and it showed the process of how new chicks get out of the egg. The chick starts to peck at the shell, a little at a time. It takes forever but keeps working at it and working at it. The mama hen just stands next there and watches

You might ask “why don’t you help?” I though “just kick the stupid egg so we can get on with the next show. You could have it out in a few seconds. By the end of the show the show they had an answer to the question. If the mama hen helped the chick get out of the shell, the chick would die, because as it is pecking at the shell, it builds up its calculation. Which increases its strength, builds up its endurance; it strengthens the muscles that it will need to survive once it is out of the shell. If mom helped the chick would die.

Like the little chick we need to endure some trial, problems and people. Remember it is in an endurance that we increase in muscle and strength for larger and greater things. Will you value endurance?