If you’ve ever been in an airport or a mall recently, it’s hard to be in one without climbing an escalator.
Now, imagine if it wasn’t crowded with people, just you, and maybe your closest loved ones and friends.
Let’s imagine it’s just you for now.
Each step of the escalator represents one of your dreams and goals in your life. The end of the escalator represents your ULTIMATE dream, maybe it‘s your life purpose or mission or something you absolutely hope to achieve.
When you first approach the escalator to that first step, you may stumble and trip as it’s in consistent motion, and hopefully not smack your face into the first step or side rail as I did once.
A lot of people unfortunately let that first failure of tripping over the step prevent them from ever approaching the escalator again. The ego couldn’t take another failure.
But let’s say you can get past your ego and pride and start climbing the escalator, achieving one goal at a time, one step at a time, one dream at a time.
The more steps you climb, the closer the top of the escalator, that ultimate dream, starts to appear and seem closer. The speed feels like it starts to pick up AND because of the added assistance of the escalator moving you. I consider that assistance to be the universe and a higher power coming to your aide because you’re aligning your life in the right way, and the universe has an energy that rewards that.
So you keep climbing, more goals accomplished, more dreams come to fruition.
Unfortunately I wish the climb could be just as easy as only us climbing it. Unfortunately we have things called life and challenges which is like suitcases and literal baggage we carry with us. It slows us down and makes it harder to climb each step.
What might smack some of you with the truth here is that the baggage you CHOOSE to carry up the escalator with you is YOUR choice, and the more baggage you CHOOSE to hold onto, the HARDER it is and SLOWER your pace is in hitting that next dream or goal, to climb that next step.
We not only choose how MUCH baggage we decide to carry but how LONG we hold onto that baggage, how many of life’s past experiences we decide to take with us. I can tell you from personal experience, the more baggage you leave behind the easier it gets to reach that next step.
The suitcases and baggage will keep coming, but the time you will hold onto that baggage shortens, and the amount of baggage your willing to carry becomes less and less because you are simply tired of carrying it and it’s slowing you down.
The speed of the results and goals achieved in your life are in direct correlation to the amount of past baggage you’re willing to drop.
Now, we come to the last part of the escalator story, and now you want to climb the escalator with some of your family and closest friends. Because who wants to do life alone? Deep down, none of us do.
More people trying to coordinate moving up the steps, you now need bigger steps for that many people to fit on the same step, and you also have each person’s individual baggage to carry in addition to the collective group’s baggage as a unit.
There are copious amounts of examples we could use here as far as teamwork, leadership, etc. but I’m going to hone in on one aspect of this analogy.
That is this…
BE EXTREMELY SELECTIVE of who you choose to spend your time with or your life with as that will ultimately determine the speed at which you achieve your biggest dreams and goals.
People with a lot of baggage, a lot of hesitance to fail, fear of tripping over the next big step in their life… they would rather just go at a pace that just lets the escalator carry them without having to do much effort of the climbing themselves, those are the people who are going to slow you down.
They could be some of your high school or college friends, they can be coworkers, they can be family, they could even be your significant other if you’re not careful in how you select who to run in life with.
I’m not saying you still can’t include those people in your life, they can still be on your escalator, but know that it’s ok to let them go at their own pace and it’s ok to leave them at a certain step on that escalator while you continue to climb. They don’t completely fall off the escalator because by being around you and your ambitions and dreams climbing that escalator, it’s only a matter of time before they follow suit, let go of their own baggage, and chase the dream with you.
Happy Holidays to those of you who finished reading this. T and I love you, we want the best for you, and we want you to experience a life of hope and dreaming that brings that ultimate joy to your life.
Much Love.
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