Whenever a new car is placed on the market there is always a specs sheet listing the various interior, exterior and engine features. Among these features, on occasion you might see the amount of seconds it takes from 0 to 100. This gives you an idea of the performance of the vehicle and how nippy it can be; the mechanical parts of the engine & the electrical circuitry working seamlessly together to provide you with the ride of your life.
But no matter how one looks at the processes involved, there is one very important component which enables you to move between 0 and 100 in a certain time. The gears! As one pulls away in 1st gear you are very soon compelled to shift to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and on occasion 6th. With each gear change, your engine is able to generate more power and allows you to reach your desired or allowed speeds.
Just as 1st gear must give way to 2nd, because each gear serves a certain function for the engine, so too in life, we shift gears all the time. We’re constantly making changes and choices on a daily basis, kinda like changing gears in a car. We must choose what clothes to wear, what food we will eat, how we will handle certain situations, and about one hundred others as the day progresses. One process leads inexorably to the next, and we must learn to juggle between all these choices, sometimes simultaneously.
On occasion, we might even need to use the reverse gear in order to back up slightly and correct our course. We never want to digress and go backwards in life, but on occasion it might be worth your while to take a step back, assess where you’re at and make the necessary changes to your life in order to live a healthier, happier, and more productive life.