Momentum to Go

My dearest readers,

after recently helping out at the local Tough Mudder I was mind traveling back to the past, to last year when I caught myself running and crawling through the mud. A year later, however, a year after I finished the run I stood there at one of the obstacles, cheering at the new runners, encouraging them to endure and finish as well. Standing there I could pass on the inspiration and motivation I had back then to a new generation of runners that were doing it long after I had done it; and I found myself in a position where I was not concerned with my own accomplishments but with those of others, in a position where I could inspire, and serve, and figuratively lead.

A couple of years ago I wrote a post on being heroic, where selflessly we can step into servitude to support and help others. I also talked about how others will observe your deeds and (may) get inspired to do what you were/are doing as well. Once we get an opportunity to step into servitude we should not step back, because we are given not only the privilege to serve and lead but an obligation to forward what we so long carried deep inside our hearts: endurance and a relentless will to succeed and finish. When we see others struggle with what we have already accomplished, what better inspiration can one have than encouraging words and support of a finisher? How much more authentic can encouragement be when spoken through the lips of someone who was once in the same or a similar position? If you take this call and chance and time to step in and kindle an inspirational fire, then you cannot only encourage others but also revisit your own accomplishments.

Former U.S. president George W. Bush once said: “Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance on our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.” If you are a finisher, and a winner, then you have this power, for being in a position to help, serve, and support others is indeed an expression of power, a time to shine for yourself and a time to help others shine. You cannot only tell people how to endure, but they may just look at you and endure, knowing that there was a time you were in their position. And without realizing you ultimately serve and lead in a discipline, where your own accomplishments resurrect and manifest themselves in the momentum you get to pass on, the momentum you get to forward. Then your own accomplishments of the past become indeed a momentum to go and go hard, a momentum others can grab and take with them; and in that sense one thing is to be said: they will never forget your selfless support, the power you have to lead, and the ways you served them to make an effort and succeed.

You’re a finisher, a winner. You are a leader, and the ones struggling are more than happy to follow your lead. Show them, how it’s done. Serve them, and lead! Be the one in Newton’s cradle to incite momentum! Be the bringer of movement; for what you have in your heart is a treasure others don’t have and need. It is you who can give it to them. And it is you who must give it to them. If not you, then there will be no one; but you can make this difference, not only for yourself but for others who are striving to get a heart of encouragement and relentless will. Lead them the right way; don’t lead them on…and serve them on a platter what we all need: momentum to go! #foreverforward