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"Crossing the Rubicon"

Have you ever found yourself while in pursuit of a goal or an objective considering the idea of giving up, quiting or turning around? Well you're not alone many people are faced with that temptation when things don't appear to be going as planned, but don’t turn back! stay on course.

"Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully gudie you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms." Daniel Boone

 Its not that we can’t turn back, but in turning back we must consider the consequences of our action. We jeopardize losing the edge, the advantage, our focus and time. So that in turning back their lies the great possibility of failure, disappointment, and the loss of opportunity. To not turn back when tempted to do so, but to press forward is critical to your ultimate success. Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn’t turn back for fear of failure? The fear that comes with feeling that you can not afford to lose all that you have already gained and that the risk of turning back may result in your losing everything. It is a fear in thinking that I have reached a point of no return? You may be asking yourself what is the point of no return?

According to Wikipedia: The point of no return is the point beyond which someone, or some group, must continue on their current course of action, either because turning back is physically impossible, or because to do so would be prohibitively expensive or dangerous.

We call this feeling "Crossing the Rubicon" a metaphoric expression for deliberately proceeding past a point of no return. The origin of the term "Crossing the Rubicon" dates back 2,000 years ago when on January 10, 49 BC Julius Caesar was ordered to return to Rome an instead he and his army crossed the Rubicon River in violation of a direct order, recognizing that their fate together and ultimate success rested not in turning back but in pushing forward, hence the term “Crossing the Rubicon" was born.

So what have we to gain in pushing forward to cross the Rubicon, when faced with so great an onslaught of  alluring temptations to give-up, to quit or to turn around? The victory comes in our pressing forward and reaching toward the finish line.

A biblical writer wrote:

 Phillipians 3:12-14 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: I Forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

So when you are faced with the temptation to give up, to quit or to simply turn around don't!, you can do it, you can "Cross the Rubicon" and meet success.

“Success is not measured by what we’ve accomplished but by the opposition we’ve encountered, and the courage with which we’ve maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." Orison Swett Marden