The Power of "Now What?"
It is the most important question that anyone can ask.
It makes the difference between the go getters and the settlers.
It is the question of “Now what?”
It is easy to go out and achieve something once you hit that breaking point. The point where you feel overwhelmed, and the point where you feel like you can’t take what life is throwing at you anymore.
You get excited, you get pumped, you learn, and eventually you grow. Once you start growing you start mastering, and even more confidence fills your veins and heightens your sentences. Then you master it, and then you ask…
“Now what?”
This moment, the one that you have trained for, the one you have sacrificed for, it is eventually going to come. When it does, you have to be prepared.
If you don’t answer the question of what now, well then you have capped yourself. You start playing in the same ballpark. Life gets boring, it gets uneventful, repetitive, and soon you find yourself staring at the cold hard truth. That you are right back where you started.
All the hard work, all the passion you put in, all the change and sacrifice you made, it slowly drains into nothingness. You pick up your old habits, you start doubting yourself again, and you become the person you ran from so long ago.
When you ask what now, you must invite the hate. You invite the discouragement. You invite that people that don’t want to see you win. Why? Because that is what keeps you winning.
When people start giving you praise, you have peaked. When people start questioning your forward thinking, that is when you know you are improving. Those who question are narcissistic. They make you, “play it safe” in order to achieve the outcome that they want rather than the one that you want.
Be authentic, state your goals, teach what you know to help others, and do it all with your chest. If people don’t like that, well then screw them, because in the end it really only makes them feel uncomfortable.
Whenever we turn a stone, we find a new one right under it. So we must keep turning, until we cannot turn anymore. We must keep finding reasons to be doubted, we must always be pushing towards something. In the end, that is what keeps us realizing we are doing the right thing for ourselves, by asking “now what.”