I understand that I am not the fastest person whenever we do long formation or fitness runs.Here is what 10 years of the military has taught me personally: I personally live by this manta in everything that I do. What matters the most is that you run your race and you finish your race.” -Michael J. “It does not matter if a person passes you by in life. The military has also taught me to adopt my own mentality that I have shared with others, and I want to share with you: Smooth is fast: When you are slow and develop smoothness to your process, you gain the knowledge and experience necessary to become smarter and eventually become faster in what you are doing.When you are trying to be too fast, you sometimes forget things and eventually it goes from smooth to rough in a hurry causing you to fail. Slow is smooth: When you are slowly moving you are focusing on the fundamentals and following the steps to get to where you are going.The military has taught me something through training that I love personally in my life which is: Slow is smooth smooth is fast. This can also trickle down to a person maybe becoming afraid to try anything new in the future because of what they had previously experienced. That alone can cause a person to feel like quitting, not putting forth their own best effort, and giving up on finishing their goals and dreams of finishing what they have started.

You may not be faster than the person next you when it comes to a race, driving somewhere, learning new things, or accomplishing goals, but as long as you are not stopping, you will eventually get there.Ī lot of people get discouraged when they see other people pass them and think that because they are not as fast as that person, they feel inadequate. Although we all may move at different speeds in life, what matters most is that you do not stop at whatever you do. Keep this in mind whenever you do anything in life. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” -Unknown

Stop The World by Sherry Mayes