An organisation that I worked for used to have these end of year awards where everyone would nominate people or teams in different categories, at the end of my first year I won “Relentless for Results”, which was ironic given that I learnt that relentless comes with a whole lot of pushback. As human beings relentless isn’t our innate attitude, why suffer on the road less taken when enjoyment awaits on the beaten down path? We delay fixing the coffee machine because we know if we tap it 3 times in that specific spot it will do the job. We choose not to do something new because of fear of looking silly, failing or what the unknown holds. We are creatures of familiar patterns, habits…creatures of comfort and this also means that many of us aren’t challenged in ways that push us to face the things we avoid or help us grow and learn.
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