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Posted on December 26th, 2009
How to get to Preston park in Brighton by bus?
what bus would i need to get from the city center of brighton to get to preston park? x
Have you ever climbed out of your car and walked away in anger because you were being delayed by one red light or traffic jam after another? Probably not. You continued your journey in spite of all those exasperating delays and achieved the satisfaction of reaching your destination. You did not give up.
Travis Sago, the article marketing expert, has stated correctly that we accept the delays caused by red traffic lights without getting out of our cars and giving up on our journey. But in other parts of our lives we give up too easily when we encounter even one ‘red light’ or obstacle. We, thus, fail to enjoy the results of completing these other ‘journeys’.
When we drive, we continue on, undefeated by the red lights, until we reach the end of our planned route. But when we run into the equivalent of a red light in our ordinary lives, we too often give up without a fight. When we encounter business and relationship problems, we meekly surrender before we reach the ‘end of the road’ and achieve our goals.
Whether we drive or travel by train or by any other means of transport we complete our journey. In August, 2008, my sister caught a train from Liverpool to Euston. Delays were announced because of fires on freight trains further down the line.
People in the UK are so used to inexplicable train delays that one comedian, Bill Bailey, suggested that travellers would not question an announcement stating that the delays were caused by a Welsh dragon breathing fire into one of the tunnels further down the route!
In any event, dragon or not, my sister did not abandon the train. She waited patiently until the freight train fires were put out and the train moved on. She completed her journey and arrived eventually at Euston station in London.
As I write, news has come through that a train taking Labour party members away from their 2008 Manchester conference has been delayed by a man with a gun on the track near Rugby. I doubt if any of them abandoned their train. As they sit through the delay, they can at least celebrate the fact that the Conservative lead over Labour has been cut in half!
In the Soap Opera ‘Coronation Street’ one character asks another:
“What do you do if you fall off your horse?”
“Sell it for glue?”
“Get back on’t horse!”
People not only ‘get back on the horse’ showing persistence, they also show ingenuity when their travel plans go awry. They think up alternative plans or get help from someone else who knows more than they do. Recently, I had to get help from the RAC or Royal Automobile Club.
On my way out of Brighton, earlier this year, I found that leaving was much more difficult than I had anticipated. I tried to escape from the numerous traffic jams, road works, hills and narrow roads of Brighton but my car started overheating and the water in the radiator boiled over and left the car smoking and smouldering.
I felt like abandoning the car till the next day. A kindly traffic warden told me he would turn a blind eye to this! I could have stayed at a hotel for the night but instead I rang the RAC and waited for help. None came until I rang again and they said that a rescue car had been despatched to Eastbourne, a lovely little town on the South Coast but not Brighton!
I was beginning to feel a bit like Bill Foster, the character acted by Michael Douglas, in the film ‘Falling Down’, who loses the plot when he is sacked and caught up in the mother of all traffic jams on a very hot day.
However, after further frustrating delays a very efficient RAC mechanic finally arrived who fixed my car well enough for me to get home. Unlike Bill Foster, I did not end up attacking or shooting any one! Instead, I reached home with my car in one piece and without the police hunting me down with guns.
In fact, the traffic surveillance police were after me! Soon after arriving home, I had a letter from Brighton and Hove council fining me for entering one of their bus lanes! They kindly sent me a photograph to prove this.
Most of us, then, show determination, focus and ingenuity if we are on a journey. We get help if necessary but we complete our journey. However, we are far too ready to give up when things do not go right for us in business or in our attempts to achieve our other goals.
If we are trying to make money writing a book, we give up at the first rejection by a publisher. That is one ‘red light’ too many for us. We give up trying to make money on the internet when it involves far more work and learning than we were led to believe by those who promised quick cash. We give up the first time we are refused a date. A more determined person gets the woman or the man!
Some martial arts students give up the first time they fail a grading exam. They don’t see it as just one obstacle or ‘red light’ on their way to their goal of blackbelt. One of my best students, who could easily have reached his blackbelt, gave up the first time he failed a test.
People who are trying to achieve a worthwhile goal are too ready to say:
“I quit!” “I’ve had enough!” “I give up!”
It is well known that no one achieves success by quitting or giving up. The roads would be packed with cars from one end of the country to th
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e other if drivers gave up. Once in a blue moon you may have to leave your car and walk.
About thirty years ago, I was driving in South East London. Smog descended, as it used to in those days, so that I could only see about a yard in front of me. I abandoned the car on a bridge in Abbey Wood. I could not drive on without risking an accident. But that is the only time I can remember giving up on a car journey.
I also remember driving to Southend in a blizzard when the visibility was almost as bad as on that foggy day. That time I stupidly stayed in the car and completed the journey although both I and my passenger were scared stiff of crashing throughout a hair raising drive.
Let’s then transfer our ruthless determination to complete our journeys to our other goals. Let’s keep right on ‘to the end of the road’ until we have published that book or made those sales or mastered that skill. There are always many alternative ways of reaching your goals. Try them out before you give up. Get help when you need it.
Think daily of all the benefits that will flow from achieving just one of your goals and such thoughts will draw you along to the completion of your ‘journey’ whatever it may be. Decide what are the most important things you must do to achieve your goals and give most of your time to these activities.
Make them the first things you do each day.
Attitudes are transferable. If we can show persistence in one area of life, we can show similar persistence in another. We can all choose what we will do first thing in the day. Do your key tasks before reading your emails!
Sir Harry Lauder wrote a song shortly after his son was killed in action in the first world war. The chorus sums up the spirit of persistence which we all need not only when we are travelling but when we are trying to complete our other ‘journeys’.
“Keep right on to the end of the road,
Keep right on to the end,
Tho’ the way be long, let your heart be strong,
Keep right on round the bend.
Tho’ you’re tired and weary still journey on,
Till you come to your happy abode,
Where all the love you’ve been dreaming of
Will be there at the end of the road.”
May you achieve the results, the joy and even the love which awaits you when you reach the end of your ‘journey’.
John Watson’s ebook ‘The 36 Laws’ could help you to ‘reach the end of the road’ and achieve your dreams and goals. It is full of practical and memorable advice that takes you from the start to the finish of any goal imaginable. Take a look at:
http://www.motivationtoday.com/36_laws.php
You can also find motivational ebooks by authors like Stuart Goldsmith. Check out http://www.motivationtoday.com/the_midas_method.php
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