Keep Trying

Does it ever feel like you have been working really hard and not getting anywhere? I know I have felt this way before. There are times during our lives when we struggle just to keep up. There are other times when we just fall down. I just had a conversation with a friend that made me think about this. He felt that lately he has been “flapping his wings, but not taking flight”.

If you are a bird flapping your wings and not getting off the ground, what do you do? You keep flapping and your wings continue to get stronger. As your wings get stronger, you eventually take flight. As a kid trying to learn to ride a bike or throw a ball, you didn’t quit doing it because it was too hard or because you thought you couldn’t do it. You knew it was something you wanted, therefore you never stopped trying. Eventually you were able to ride that bike and throw that ball. Now you can do both without thinking a second thought about it.
Health is the same way. We want instant results and if something presents a challenge, it is easy to give up. It is harder to keep going, but that is what we want to do. We want to be healthy just like we wanted to ride the bike. My advice: keep trying!