Leveling up takes isolation, separation, and extreme focus.
How many times have you made your attempt to level up to a higher level than that which you are currently operating within?
When we first encounter opportunities to level up as a child, the prerequisites for getting to the next level are traditionally lesser and therefore, potentially less demanding upon the individual than what will most likely be required in future events that require elevating oneself to the next higher level.
When we are operating on the lower strata, we absolutely get a rise of accomplishment knowing that we have pushed ourselves to get to the next rung on the proverbial ladder.
The feeling of accomplishment that is engendered through this achievement is the beginning of a training process that BF Skinner would wholeheartedly approve of, for at each appropriate moment in the training process, there is the internal notification that there is yet another level to be achieved. The stimulation that galvanizes our desire to accomplish this activates, and there is the reward that is readily apparent for our having accelerated ourselves towards accomplishing whatever needs to be accomplished, in order that we achieve the appropriate reward.
This training starts very early in our lives and is ever increasingly accentuated as we grow older. What we discover as we mature to the higher levels of such experiences, is that the work that is required in order to rise up to the next levels is increasingly more difficult, more taxing, and admittedly, more daunting as well.
Knowing that we are very likely to encounter obstacles that appear nearly impossible to accomplish, we most certainly must be in the correct frame of mind in order for our minds, emotion, and our physical bodies to be capable of rising to such an occasion.
The only way to accomplish something of that magnitude is to sequester oneself into a training regimen, obliterate a majority of social life, (as well as any other free time and every other waking minute that may be borrowed from our daily lives), in order for us to go to the extensive prerequisites necessary for our accomplishment of the goals that we have put forth as our targeted victory.
We do not necessarily consider how much sacrifice may be required in order that we are capable of ultimately accomplishing these tasks, so we are inevitably lost between our internal desires to relax and enjoy life as opposed to our unflinching desire to accomplish the harder goals that we have set for ourselves.
When it becomes clear that these are the only options at our disposal, the personal sacrifices are often times untenable, and the ultimate goal becomes compromised.
If you are willing to do everything that is required to accomplish these lofty ambitions, then you are that much more likely to actually achieve them.
Happy Wednesday!
Brian Weiner 