one hundred and ten percent
I’m going to ask you a question. It’s an easy one: How much effort is enough to finish the job? Many will tell you that you only really need as little or as much as it takes; whatever gets the job finished. Others will tell you that the only proper way to complete any assignment is 110%. Scoff all you want, but it’s true. We limit ourselves within a certain capacity as we go about doing our work, saving up energy and willpower for whatever tasks come along. Here’s the thing, when we encounter something that challenges us, we are met with a fierce rebuttal if we go in half-cocked. Then what do we do? Some give up, some get help, and the rare breed comes at it with one hundred and ten percent effort. Let’s go ahead and define our seemingly ridiculous concept with a very real and very simple explanation: one hundred and ten percent is the effort you put into completing a task and growing in the process. Life is not restricted to a plateau or slope for ease of experience, life is about challenge, endurance, and the ability to expand beyond our limits.
It’s important to get in exercise and stay healthy amidst the fast and junk food boom of the century. It may be difficult to find time during the day, when all you are worried about is work. When I’m in the middle of my exercise routine, I don’t always know that I will have the strength to finish when I’m facing down a particularly punishing series of reps or I’m preparing for a marathon and that last kilometer feels impossible. What’s left to give when I’ve given my 100%? When you push yourself, you’re expanding your abilities to perform and succeed. You are stretching your fuel tank to a point where it can sustain even more for the next challenge you face. This philosophy can apply to any challenge, academic, physical, even in business. If you’re working on a project and it boils down to who does best between you and your competitors, of course you’re going to try, but if you don’t give it that 110%, it may not be enough to clinch the victory. In your heart you will know you gave it your all and left it all on the field of life.
