Rust Beyond Rest
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Gangwar(Unsplash)
“If you rest, you rust” was coined by Helen Hayes nick named
"First Lady of American Theatre".
Taking a cue from the quote, I
feel before moving forward, it
is essential to understand the larger picture of what and why of
‘Rest vs. Rust’. What is that we
are looking for in moving ahead and what are we prepared to sacrifice? No doubt there may be occasions when
inspiration and enthusiasm depletes on being tired or facing
obstacles etc. It therefore
may
make our
perseverance complicated. This is the
crucial phase of our crusade
and decides the future course of action. Surging from the comfort zone of ‘resting and
nesting’ is
sacrificing extra leisure time and material comfort. It is do it now or never
and go beyond the imaginary boundaries of limitations. We need to learn from disciplined animals
like dogs, bulls and horses etc. who exemplify through their courage and
persistency of constantly moving. So don’t ever stop surging
just because we encountered a setback. In fact often stoppages on the way make
us more resolute.
Yes it may look a tight rope walk at times?
After continuous hard work, tensions, office politics, we eagerly look forward to weekends /Sundays to relax and recharge our mental and physical batteries. But in a flux of career/ business stagnation and related irritations and annoyance, it always seems to vanish quickly. In the highly competitive world, we recognize that weekends and holidays are the secret to boost our work accomplishments by injecting energy and feelings of rejuvenation. Unfortunately most of us (including me during my active professional life) felt usually disappointed to hit Monday ready to go. Most keep wondering if and when we will contrive way out of the daily work routine and will ever find a sense of intention and purpose in our professional career. Alas! In most of the cases it ends up in a mirage. For instance, just few months before superannuation from active professional job/ business, most start planning... “I will visit so and so place.... will go for pilgrimage....will go for vacations etc.” But after spending few weeks of rest, we start gathering ‘rust and dust’. We keep watching 24x7 same walls, same flower pots, and same woman next door and also bear the brunt of spouse naggings. That is when most of us may start thinking “wasn’t it better to have kept self away from resting and instead continued moving by locating a post retirement assignment or spend time in a library/club/Association etc. to maintain a certain life speed and a new lease of life”.
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We may speculate, how the next door guy is able to tackle sluggishness, lethargy and continue his endeavors without rest, but “I am not”? Wait a
minute and ask you self-“How many times have I missed my good night sleep and
kept working on my goal? How many times have I missed a community gathering and instead continued
on my crusade? How many times have I missed my lunch and kept promise of moving
dispassionately? How many times have I continued working in extreme hot and
sultry weather and kept focus to continue with my crusade?” The next door guy
often does this. His motto perhaps has
been “Good,
Better, Best. Never let it Rest. Till our Good is Better and our Better is best” Irving
Stone, a famous novelist was once asked what runs through the lives of all
great exceptional people. He said, "They are beaten over the head, knocked
down, vilified and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked
down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their
lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do."
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Reactivate Yourself
The push for rushing forward has to come from within.
Unless we create that push, life will remain unexciting and slowly get rusted
and dusted. The key to surge will always remain:
Persistent…Passion…Perspiration…Perfection…
Penchant
Patience…Positive…Practice…Prayer…
Courtesy-Ashutosh Tikoo, Chandigarh (What’s up)
1 Leaving the comfort zone of ‘Rest’ and moving ahead essentially
is ‘do-it-yourself ’. We
are the story writer, director, producer and actor of our
dream movie ‘Keep Moving’. As we
build the film scene by scene with absolute synchronization day by day so we
do by stitching together hard work, struggles, hardships and taking risks at
every stage to build on our Surge story.
2 Unrelenting to make small strides each day helps build a base
for self- motivation, re-knock and revive our enthusiasm to get back to move
ahead. Gaining height and distance
doesn’t come without exertion and sweating. Can we therefore be prepared to
stick out our neck, get off our bump and ensure we keep moving and fulfil our dream
of not resting and getting rusted?
3 Achieving life objectives come at a cost in terms of being on ‘pins
and needles’ and there is no tomorrow. Start working on the objective right now.
Surging ahead is through and through keenness on way to our clear and concise
intention. Achieving the objective stands out if it is built step by step in
spite of scanty resources, being repeatedly tired, unlucky and without assets
to fall back upon.
4 Accomplishments in life are an outcome of tolerance, firmness
and cultivating the right habits and off course a bit of luck. Goal achievers
are those who not only dream to achieve the highest but grind for it and do not
compromise for average returns. Once they are on the dot, their next target is
excellence in whatever they undertake. Achieving life objectives is not a
commodity that can be purchased in the market place. It is not available as a
charity. It belongs to us if we have a clear road map of moving to our
destination.
5 Surge campaign belong to those who sprout as an ordinary person;
take brunt of tornado like situations in their resolve to move beyond
disappointments. Accomplishing rushing forward campaign is a long- drawn battle
and needs servicing regularly and discarding complacency, sluggishness and
slowness. Constant endeavor and endurance is what will eventually swim us
across. Spin or drop, move ahead or get left behind, the choice remains with us
and our staying power.
6 There is a great message in the famous saying, ‘You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.’ What is being advised is that even if there is a letdown, yet we can be in total command of our self and project an upbeat image provided we change direction and course of our action and reaction? Developing and sustaining an optimistic state of mind really starts from us by believing in self, building an atmosphere of cheerful feelings around and seeing others in an affirmative way. This is possible by self- introspection and repeated practice. A constructive mind-set is indispensable and essential prerequisite for accomplishing our surging ahead campaign.
7 Build physical activity in our life by daily walking to maintain our overall health. This can increase cardiovascular fitness, strengthen bones, boost muscle power and endurance.
Bhushan Kachru
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