The amount we have.

               
                    We were often told to do our best in almost anything in order to achieve our goals. But we never know what is the definition of "best" from the person who told us and from the our perspective when we think of the "best". Example: Your parents would say something like "do your best in your final exam" and in their minds, they would probably define "best" as in getting A in your exam. Meanwhile in our brains, we would probably think "if we get C in our exam, that's the "best" we could ever have". SEE THE DIFFERENCE?

                     We can't really read each other's mind, but we are given enough information in guessing what the other person might be thinking. That's how we overcome obstacles in life. But what we don't know is that how many ways are there in reaching the same destination with different solutions. If you believe that you can only make "good" things with "good" materials or that you can only achieve a "good" career with a "good" education certificate, please stop reading this. If you are given a limited amount of money to survive for a period of time, have you ever ask yourself how you would use the money to maximize your survival. Most people would calculate how much money they can spend by dividing the amount of money equally to the amount of time in that period. That way they will know what are their limits, avoiding any insufficient usage. It's logical that if you want to be able to achieve something, you must be able to know what are your limits. What are you capable of doing with that limited amount of money will determined how awesome you are in your survival.

                      However, what happens if you desire more than just survival? What happens if you have the desire to survive in a more luxurious way. Would tell yourself to just give up on that luxurious thought? or would try to find a way to achieve that luxurious life? But you would have to take risks if you plan to make your life luxurious. Example: You choose to find a way to make your survival much better. That would mean that you will need more money. But how can you get more money? Simple, invest half of your money on an item and make a business out of it by selling the item through the market. Make a profit and poof, your survival rate just got better. But what happens when you invested on an item and no one buys it? Well that would mean that you can't spend anything within that half period of time and that would probably mean you're screwed. That is the risk. So most people would pick the safer way out. They'll just keep themselves alive with a limit set on their heads. They will never know how much potential they have if they keep playing safe.

                        This just proved that most of us will only do something if there is a safe route in front of us. Because of risks existing in an alternative path, they ignore to take that route fearing they might fall and never rise again. Even so, do you really believe that the safe route will lead you to your success in the future? I can tell you this, you can have the best coffee beans to make the best coffee in the whole world. But if the way you approach in handling them is bad, you will end up making the worst coffee that anyone has ever drank. Just because you have "good" quality coffee beans doesn't mean that you will be able to make "good" quality coffee. If you brew them without care, they will not turn out well. The opposite is also true, even if you have cheap coffee beans. If you brew them carefully, they will turn out to be favorable and you might just find yourself opening a coffee shop in a blink of an eye.

                           So if the next time you got something "good", start thinking how to bring out the best qualities of that "good". It might just be the opportunity for you to reach your true goal in a split second.