Analysis: Setting The Bar High

Setting The Bar High: Never Settle For Less

Babe Ruth said it best when he said “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

Guess what? He's right – those people who never give up? They set the bar extremely high, they stretch their targets and they don't settle when an obstacle is standing between them and what they really want. An obstacle is just another challenge that they can overcome to taste success. Success always tastes better when you've had to shed some blood, sweat, and tears to get there, doesn't it?

It may help you to remember that you only get one life, and it's shorter than most people realize. If it's a career you want to climb the ladder for, if it's the love of your life that you're looking for – the same rules apply – fight for what you want.
We go through school life and come to a crossroads – do you continue your education or fork right to enter the workforce right away? From there, you face a series of decisions that will change your life. Unfortunately, at 18 years old it isn't always easy to know what you want out of life. Even once college ends, the question of what you want to do... persist. There is often one thing we can put our finger on when we repeatedly ask ourselves this question and the answer is not this, not what you're doing in this very moment – you want something more. Even if you can't quite articulate what that something might