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When you hear the word “walk" the first thing that pops up in your thought bulb is motion. When you walk, you enable your body to approach or reach the destination that your mind is leading you to. Walking is not a quick option of moving; however, it definitely, will get you to your destination. 

The mind is a powerful weapon, indeed. It can make or destroy you. Through it, you succeed; and also through it, you fail. How often do we feel anxious when we’re supposed to execute an astronomical task, and we often find ourselves seeking ways to terminate the activity we’re obliged to perform. 

Lip – it is the most powerful weapon. As the great Marcus Garvey, once said: “A pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than both". We often hear praises, aphorisms and phrases used to magnify the might of the tongue. “Speak things into existence” religious individuals often utter. 

However, the lip get its power from transmitting utterances into the subconscious mind. Lip may be mightier than the pen and sword, but alone it can never speak things into existence, it requires execution. Hence the phrase “walk more than you talk” which also emphasizes the pulchritude of walking. 

A human’s mind is filled (filled is an understatement) or, rather overfilled with stupendous ideas which eventually exits the memory bank owing to the lack of walkers to execute those ideas. If not a victim, then I believe we’ve all witnessed a car broken down beside the road. My biggest question in this situation is who will get help quicker between a driver who’d rather keep exposing his thumb to attract help, or the driver who’ll just put on his overall work suit to find out what may be the problem? The answer is pretty obvious. 

Motion is contagious and attractive. Every living organism lives through movement. Birds have to fly to catch worms, lions have to leave their territory to catch prey. Through motion, we shall experience change nor progress. In life, you will never learn nor progress if you don’t walk. We often hear how good people talk about their dreams when we’re engaged in elongated conversations, but how many people do more than just talk about their goals and dreams? Some do walk, but after tripping and falling, they quit. 

Sylvester Stallone once said “you only learn when you fail, not when you succeed”. Therefore, as a human being who still has the privilege of being on earth, whatever it is that you want to achieve, whatever goals you may have, big or small, the truth is there is only one way to alter your “To-do” list into “just did"…and that is through walking.

We all have problems, but the most painful part is that most of us choose to be querulous characters instead of walking towards solutions. We complain about the economy, the government, tumultuous relationships, bad friends, bad habits when the best option is walking away from those obstacles that block our success, and walk towards solutions, progress and success. Whatever you do or whatever happens in your life, always choose to walk.

Walk more than you talk!

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