To Float Or Not To Float: This you must answer

The ancients were wise. They knew a lot about human nature. They knew many things about how to achieve success or accomplish your goals. Seneca was one of the wise ones. He said: “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable”. The message is simple. If you want to be successful, you must decide what you want to do to be successful and what you want to achieve. You must decide to which port you want to sail and commit to sailing there. Floating is not an option.

Sure, if you like to float, you can float, and if you happy floating, then float. But you must know one thing, while you float, people around you are sailing away, leaving you behind. They are not staying stationary.

There are some people who are always floating. You may be drawn to them because floating is easy. It is comfortable. Floating is a gentle rocking motion that doesn’t get you upset. You don’t have to do much work in order to float.

You see some people floating in the distance. You direct your boat there and join the party. You stay together. Then the storm comes. It whirrs and rains. It throws huge waves onto your little gathering. It moves the boats up and down. Some boats old and brittle boats fall apart. The people inside them fall into the sea and drown. Some boats are badly damaged. The people in them lie sick and exhausted from battling the storm. Some boats, by sheer luck, remain in tact. The people who are in them are convinced that they are invincible and life will go on just as it was. Until the next storm comes…

Let me ask you something. Wouldn’t it be better to be at port to weather the storm? Sheltered away from the rain and the wind. In that local pub, with friends. Warm, by the fire, drinking beer, rum or whiskey. And even if you do get caught in the storm, wouldn’t you have a better chance of surviving it by sailing through?

So which port do you want to sail to? Or do you want to keep floating?