There are things in life once your soul spots them, it will never take its eyes off them and will never consider its stay on earth worth the trouble without ever laying its feet on these things.

And to get them, you must discipline your soul to take its eyes off them for a moment and focus on the price to pay. This may require disappearing for a while.

And in disappearing for a while, the soul tends to look back, back where all it may see is many attempts that ended in failure and how far behind you are, compared to many by-passing you.

But don’t lose focus. Pay the price. Train. Train hard. Jog. Write. Research. Eat well. Reconnect to your spirituality. Dig deeper into yourself and draw out the finest.

When you finally stand in the ring to face your opponent, yours will not be ordinary fists, but hours, days, weeks, months and years of preparation-packed punches to crush whatever is standing between you and that title.

Remember, growing soft means putting yourself in the furnace of preparation, where melting takes place, where you cast yourself into whatever it is your soul desires to be.