Never do just enough!
It’s the most dangerous form of performance.
It’s a state of not trying your best because you’ve grown comfortable that doing just enough is actually good enough
It's falling prey to justifications that you were too tired, confused or distracted, and simply elected to do the easy things that provide for temporary pleasure, yet permanent "pain". (or should I say "paying") It’s merely getting by and thinking that you are getting better just because you have, or can do basically the same as most other people.
It’s running with the pack until they mature, get hungry and then leave you in the dust for the hunt. Or even worse, eventually take you over and consume you.
It’s a non-comparison. A form of absolute indifference and complacency that sets you back while you think you’re moving forward.
A fatal waste of your time and potential, because you recognize that you are maybe just slightly ahead of the world around you.
It’s a 9-to-5, comfortability, or just getting by mentality that society has conditioned us to accept, yet proceeds to suck the potential out of us.
It’s never embracing the instruction found in challenge, rather living a single level, one dimensional life without depth, purpose or aspect.
Until one day, one wakes and realizes they've been duped (by themselves of course) and not been getting better at all; rather at best - only remaining equal.
You will have no one to get angry at except for yourself if you don’t have the health or fortune you imagined, can't lift considerably more than all others, or sprint faster or longer in your race, whatever your game may be.
Do you ever want to realize that maybe; it's too late?
Wake up one day and discover that no mark has been made, and your name not even remotely known?.
Truer words have never been spoken; Early to bed and early to rise, while others slumber and indulge in their own ignorance.
So, never do just enough. Rather do more than is necessary, and way more than everyone else. Then all will go well with you. It's a discipline.
You can never make a withdrawal from just enough or take a vacation, or buy a car, or more importantly; give to others from just enough.
You can’t leave an inheritance, or build a legacy. The problem with just enough is; that it most always proves to be barely enough.
You see at the end of life, doing just enough is more like doing nothing at all.
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