It’s Okay to Be Completely Off Course

Keep trying, please…

Brandon Bell
6 min readNov 29, 2021
Photo by Paul Green on Unsplash

During the course of your life, you will find yourself completely off course from what you’re trying to do. Times will get hard and you’ll find some type of excuse to leave your path for a moment.

If you’ve been spending enough time on your plan and on your purpose, then you will miss the path you were on. But when you’re on that path, you'll be scared, tired, and burnout from time to time.

You never really know if you should take a break or if you should keep going. There’s one side of you that will tell you to push through the pain and keep going even if you’re tired and there’s another side of you that will tell you to rest and completely stop what you’re doing.

You need to keep going and get back on track eventually because if you’re off track for too long your basically putting yourself in a deeper hole. It’s okay to be off track for a short period of time, you should take this time to really figure why you’re doing what you’re doing, believe that you should be doing what you’re doing, and also push yourself to do it anyway.

You can't think about what could happen if you’re doing the work you’re doing and it doesn't come up with any reward, just do it. You will be happy at the end of each year that you really did put in the work instead of…

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Brandon Bell

A young adult who’s writing is geared towards self-improvement and self care. “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”