“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.- Lao Tzu.” From the minute you were born, it is the first step in your personal journey. A personal journey is something everyone experience in their lifetime. This experience teaches us many things about ourselves and what’s important to have in our personal journey to succeed. Having a personal journey means that you become wiser and smarter because from the experience you learn skills that are important. A personal journey is one that teaches you to be honest, persistence, and to controlling and know your inner self. These three can be seen in the poem “From the Odyssey,” The Narrow Road of the Interior,” and Ted Talk “Success is a Continuous Journey.”
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This simply does not mean you give up and stay in your mom’s couch all day, instead, you should work harder and keep pushing towards your goal again. Persistence is an important skill to have in our personal journey because when we fail to reach our goals, we need persistence to keep us moving and find ways to reach that goal. In the article “Five Steps to Positive Life Change” by Jim Taylor, a section called “Forks in the Road,” talks about problems down the road and what we need to do to deal with those problems. It says “Taking the action steps and achieving… depends on recognizing important forks in the road. I make the distinction between the bad road and the good road.” This means that it’s important to know that your in a ditch and stuck trying to get your goals, what you need to do first is know that you’re stuck and then change things that made you stuck in the road. In a video called “Ted Talk-Success Is A Continuous Journey” by Richard St. John, he says “reaching success I always try to improve and did good work, but then I stop.” In your personal journey, you never want to stop going forward and you should always be persistence because when you stop working, you’re going to fail no matter what. You always want to be persistence because success is not a one way street, if you continue searching, you will definitely find success. To conclude this, persistence is an important skill to have in …show more content…
In the article “Five Steps to a Positive Life Change” by Jim Taylor, a section called “Explore Your Inner World,” it talks about changing and that it is good to change things about yourself because if you don’t the challenges you face will be harder to overcome. Another example is when it says “These explorations of your inner world can enable you to finally understand why you have been the way you have been and done things…” It is shown that if you know and control your subconscious you can control things such as how you behave and how you think about situations. From the poem called “The Narrow Road of the Interior” by Matsuo Basho, a quote I found is “I lost my peace of mind; summoned…, I felt unable to settle down to anything.” As you can see, knowing your inner self is very important because a clear mind is a good mind. A clear mind will make smart choices while a blocked and a unclear will lead you to make mistakes. In conclusion, knowing and controlling your inner world is important because you will make better choices and get to control yourself in