Motivation
"You get it when you least expect it..."
This is a quote I would associate my recent milestone to.I started practising backbend kickover since mid-April and got it only yesterday (July 6). Initially when I started practising I was sceptical as to how to reach my goal. Slowly, day by day small progressions made me move ahead and not quit.
Later, I did fall into a stagnation period where I felt like this is the best I could do, and if I want to reach my goal, I may need some professional assistance. But only thing I did not want to lose was consistency. This made me have a cool mindset even when I could not reach the goal, even when I was very close to it. I really felt I was close and I was frustrated by the number of days passing by without me reaching the goal.
Recently, due to some reasons, I could not workout for three consecutive days. So, the first day after this small gap, I wanted to make up for it and pushed myself. I am practising for planche and that day I felt my progress was negligible. I was a bit low, and did not expect other training to go well too. When I started the backbend kickover practice, I did not expect much. I only wanted to do the same stuff I was doing since a month or so. But..
Magically I completed the kickover and was surprised and excited! Well, I told to myself, this is not magic that I got today, it is a result of hard-work and consistency over time. This day was the least expected to reach my goal and I reached.
So, what I understand is, one must be hard-working and consistent in working towards his goals (small & big), and should not expect too much from the efforts one puts every day. When the time is right, your efforts will show up and the goal shall be reached.
Perseverance
As the saying goes, hard-work can beat talent.
Consistency is something which has had an impact in these few months during the quarantine (April-July, 2020). I have started to embrace failure as nothing more than a battle lost today but could be won tomorrow or afterwards with hard-work and consistency. I know the fruits of being consistent may at worst be late, but it will surely come.
I also started embracing my setback in few domains. This has helped me reflect on what I am doing wrong to have the setback. You can never overcome the failure unless you embrace it. One needs to address the failure to set a path towards success. Not addressing failure is equivalent to living in a dream where you believe you have succeeded, but in fact you have failed.
I also learnt that I need to try it and then accept defeat, rather than accepting the defeat before I try. I used to think few things are easy and did not try them, because I was scared to fail. I am still scared to fail, but now I will push myself to try and then fail or succeed. Some activities, once I have tried and succeeded, I realised that I have wasted a lot of time being scared to try. Believe me, it is okay to fail, but it is NOT okay to not try.
Once you have that understanding, only thing stopping you from achieving your goal is hard-work and consistency. One may call these two attributes together as perseverance.
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