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Standing Still Doesn’t Mean You Are Pausing

You work so hard to get to a certain point in your life. You achieve it and life is good. You decide to take a break, a pause if you will, figuring that you can just pick up where you left off. Unfortunately life doesn’t work that way.

Sure if we think of life as being a simple line that is there for us to progress through the theory of taking a break makes sense. The problem is the line is constantly moving with you. People change, business changes, trends change and your competition changes. When you pause all of those don’t pause with you and that is where we seem to get stuck.

But if the line is moving shouldn’t we be moving with it even if we are standing still? You mean like those cool people movers you see in airports? Well in this analogy it’s not even like that because you get off the people mover when you pause. The people who seem to do just enough to keep up with the world are the ones who are standing on that moving line and the ones walking/running on it are the ones that excel.

By the time you step back on the line you are in a different crowd. People don’t know you. There are no more laurels to rest on. It’s almost like you have to start all over again, but not quite. Either way it sucks. You don’t want that to happen to you.

Sure there are breaks that need to be taken in life, but extended breaks can mean the difference between someone else taking the spotlight and you coming back at just the right time. The music industry is a perfect example of this. You don’t want to become over-saturated, but you definitely want to do enough so that you aren’t forgotten.

In life standing still usually means you are moving backwards. Keep your legs moving.