The Countdown - Facing The Pressure

Tick Tock...

Tick Tock...

You're Running Out of Time.

You're Running Around.

Everything is Against You.

Nothing is Going Your Way.

You're Doing Everything in Your Power to Make It to the End.

Putting Your Entire Being Into the Best You're Able.

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Left and Right.

Up and Down.

You're Getting Hit.

Each Time By Things Completely Outside Your Control.

Hopelessly Beyond Your Reach.

What Do You Do?

I'm Facing this Right Now.

I Have Not Hit "Any" of My Minimums for the Day.

No Article Written - with an Over 650 Day Straight Streak on the Line.

No Mile Ran - with an Over 100 Day Straight Streak.

I Still have a Client Coaching Session.

Bags to Get Packed for a Trip.

A Trip which is also At Risk Due to a Severe Snow Storm.

If the Flight Goes Through, then We Have to Deal with the Roads.

If the Flight Doesn't Go Through, then I Miss My Grandfather's Celebration of Life Ceremony.

Must be Up at 3:00 AM to Catch Our Flight.

Not to Mention Dinner.

I picked it up at 6:30 PM.

Looks like I won't Eat Until 9:30 PM if I'm Lucky.

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I could Give Up.

Call it Quits.

On One Thing.

On Everything.

It's Too Difficult to Continue.

There's Too Much Pressure.

No One Would "Really" Care in the Long-Term.

In my Work, I'd just become another person who the Pressure got to.

My Family would Understand and Forgive Me.

My Clients, Wonderful Humans that they Are, Would Understand and Let me Reschedule.

So What Stops Me?

Why Don't I let Something Slide?

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Is it a Pride in my Work?

Perhaps I'm more Motivated by Courage?

Or Perhaps it is the Fear of Failing that Pushes me Beyond.

Maybe it is just the Habits I've Built and most of these are just more Simple "To Do" than "Not To Do".

At least from an Energy (Mg-ATP) Perspective.

Could it be that I feel a Need to be a Force of Encouragement?

To Rise Above and be an Exemplar of What I Say?

In a World Filled with Talk but Lacking Legitimate Action.

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It doesn't help when the Emotions start to Course through Your Veins.

Icy Cold.

Boiling Hot.

An Internal Struggle.

An Ancient War.

The Same that our Ancestors Faced, yet in Modern Times.

New Nightmares and New Dreams, Yet Altogether Based on Similar Goals.

Freedom.

Hope.

Survival.

Success.

Love.

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For me, I know what the Truth is around All of These.

It "Is" All of These.

The Fight for Survival in an Oversaturated World.

The Desire to Create Meaning where Others See Nothing.

Designing a Platform for Hope as a Lighthouse in a Time Filled with Darkness.

The Pull of Success, Not for My Own Sake, but to Glorify the Truth.

To Overcome the Internal Struggles and Wars that Play Out Within Us.

For the Fact that I put my Name on my Work, and Indeed I am Proud of what that Means.

To Show my Clients that They Too Can Overcome the Struggles they Face.

To Give to My Family Every Gift they have Given Me, and to Multiply those Gifts to the Best of My Abilities.

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The Pressure is Real.

It is Daunting.

With just the Slightest of Wrong Moves, I could be Swept Away through the Abyss.

Nothing Left.

Without a Sound.

Yet Here I Stand.

Here I Plant my Feet.

The Storm Approaches, but I Do Not Fear It.

The Rain will Pour, but I will Withstand.

The Lightning Flashes, but I See It's Beauty.

The Thunder Booms, but I Understand It's Voice.

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It's Time to Commit.

It's Time to Overcome.

I Can't Be Stopped.

The Countdown is to My Victory.