"It’s okay if you don’t support me”: a Sweet lie.

“It’s okay if you don’t support me”: Indifference.

“It’s okay if you don’t support me”: Detachment.

Actually, the most significant and subtle difference lies in how you feel—emotionally, physically and energetically—when you make this statement.
Words alone won’t suffice in diagnosing your position.

A Sweet Lie… It’s like bad faith.
This state is not difficult to identify, whether you are the listener, or the one making the statement. (Unless you’re speaking in denial and lying to yourself first—which does happen.) 

Indifference and Detachment, on the other hand, are quite different.Often mistaken for one another as one would clumsily mistake salt for sugar, in reality the two taste nothing alike!
Indeed, these two modes have drastically different meanings and impact. Let’s clarify them:
 

Indifference…...

“It took me 10 years to succeed…, overnight.” 

I love this quote that I encountered in a lost magazine at a bus station.
It reminds me of 2 common illusions most achievers fall into at one point or another:

 1/The sprint does not exist.

The sprint doesn’t exist for one simple reason; What you desire the most, not an intermediate goal but your true ambition, your real quest, is an infinite game that will never be done once and for all.
You tend to it, you take it step-by-step, you expand and get bigger and better on your path, but still your journey is infinite.
The pursuit of it IS the matter.

Think a moment, when you become number 1 in your field, you discover that the game is still not over: You become your own challenger and compete with yourself to be better than you were yesterday - MJ-style.
The untold truth is that since the very beginning, you were and you are your own unique challenger. Most of the time you only realize it fully when...

When was the last time that you won big?
You could legitimately ask me to define what counts as big or at least where it starts.
But the truth is, it’s not really that relevant to establish a formal definition here. What is big for me might not be big for you, and vice versa.

What we might actually have in common is looking for the next step ahead and feeling thrilled. This is where our “Big” takes place.  
Where is your next big achievement settling?
Are you lining up with it?
How?

1/ Winning is not (yet) the point.
Focusing on “BIG” is. It will force you to become better at what you do and, in the best case scenario, at who you are too.
Indeed, I don’t care if you manage it successfully, now. I’ll care about that when you’ll be trained enough, and not missing out any more opportunities when they come across and smile at you.


2/Are you an opportunity-taker?

Are you an opportunity-observer?

Are you an opportunity-blinder?

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