The Slippery Pole

Throughout i have made a few analogy's consulting life and how we revolve around it such as one of my earlier blogs (The Hole). I thought about this today in a different way and it was actually something which a teacher helped me realise just by listening to the story they were telling.

'The Slippery Pole'

When we want to achieve something we set a goal, when we want to fulfill it we climb, and at this point in time I'm using the slippery pole analogy. Simply because everyone will understand it. We climb the pole, passing checkpoints to achieve the goal which is at the top of this pole.

It seems easy right, of course nothing is in life which is why people take things for granted. As we climb we may find it harder because we tire or it becomes wet. Not the type of wet your thinking at the moment, but this kind of wet is the things that want to drag you down or persist in making things hard for you. It can be absolutely anything, friends, family, other goals etc. the list is endless.

The point in me writing this is because i want people to understand that even in the wet you can still grip on, as hard is it may be we push ourselves if we want it enough. I have an example of myself which may not be all that interesting but it is troubling me.

I want to become fit. Never easy right. I start the climb by changing my food habits and what not and to some exercise. Simple. For me not so simple, the thing that makes my pole wet and slippery to climb is the fact that i give up easily and are impatient, and to this day i struggle to keep going i simply let myself slip from a goal in which i thought i wanted so badly.

I don't want people to think "just because he fails he is still fine." Well I'm not, I'm extremely disappointed in myself for not being able to continue a process which is laid out for me, its as if I'm disobeying society's perception and stereotypical ways. failing something like this is leading me to have little confidence in myself.

I'm going to continue my way up the pole, hopefully i can come to terms that nothing is all that easy and we have to work for every thing we do not matter how big or small. No matter what goal you have in life the pole is going to get slippery and although it may not be very slippery, its just going to give signs that there is a chance that you can slip by making a little mistake or turning your concentration off for a split second.

The more slippery the pole becomes the harder it becomes to climb if you slip on a extremely wet pole, your going to fall, and your going to fall fast. Nothing is easy in life. People tend to go on thinking that everything will be easy, well it isn't, and hopefully someday your going to come to terms with it, hopefully someday i will to.