You Will Struggle No Matter What
One of my mentors taught me one of the most important lessons in my life: You will either struggle and FAIL...
Or you will struggle and SUCCEED! Do you understand the significance of that? Struggle and striving is part of life.
Nothing comes easy unless you inherited it, but that's not success.
To succeed in life you will have to work to arrange things and create the environment you can succeed in.
Then you will most likely have to struggle to actually achieve that success.
Failure almost always means you struggle throughout your entire life.
You will either struggle to achieve and not make it or you will not even try.
That path often is a quiet struggle.
You don't even know why things are hard.
Even treading water leaves you struggling.
Have you ever really thought long and hard about what it takes to be successful? It takes WORK.
It takes TIME.
It takes COMMITMENT.
It takes CONSISTENCY.
Above all it takes ACTION.
The work is hard work sometimes.
Sometimes the amount of time seems to leave none left over for sleep, much less family or just down time.
The level of commitment necessary is total.
If you aren't totally committed, you can and will get off course.
How consistently you apply yourself and your efforts will have a direct impact on how long things take.
Finally, nothing happens until you act! Struggling doesn't have to be painful and unbearable though.
Sometimes we can great joy in the struggle to succeed, because we know we are on the way to our destination.
Think about runners.
Training to run a marathon is hard.
You have to run long and then run some more.
It takes time to build up to 26.
2 miles.
But on the way, you get in better shape.
You get to the point where you enjoy not only the actual run, but look forward to it.
You miss that particular struggle when you can't run! What would your life be like if you actually missed the struggle to achieve when you were sidetracked? You would be so motivated to get back to work that you'd do whatever you could.
Getting distracted would become the struggle instead! When you reach that point, you know you have broken through to the highest levels of performance there is.
So you can struggle ALL YOUR LIFE.
..
to end a failure.
Or you can struggle for PART OF YOUR LIFE...
to end a success.
It means you shouldn't give up because this success/getting rich/winning a championship stuff is hard...
Of course it is! Your path in life will require struggling of some kind.
Which path are you struggling on?
Or you will struggle and SUCCEED! Do you understand the significance of that? Struggle and striving is part of life.
Nothing comes easy unless you inherited it, but that's not success.
To succeed in life you will have to work to arrange things and create the environment you can succeed in.
Then you will most likely have to struggle to actually achieve that success.
Failure almost always means you struggle throughout your entire life.
You will either struggle to achieve and not make it or you will not even try.
That path often is a quiet struggle.
You don't even know why things are hard.
Even treading water leaves you struggling.
Have you ever really thought long and hard about what it takes to be successful? It takes WORK.
It takes TIME.
It takes COMMITMENT.
It takes CONSISTENCY.
Above all it takes ACTION.
The work is hard work sometimes.
Sometimes the amount of time seems to leave none left over for sleep, much less family or just down time.
The level of commitment necessary is total.
If you aren't totally committed, you can and will get off course.
How consistently you apply yourself and your efforts will have a direct impact on how long things take.
Finally, nothing happens until you act! Struggling doesn't have to be painful and unbearable though.
Sometimes we can great joy in the struggle to succeed, because we know we are on the way to our destination.
Think about runners.
Training to run a marathon is hard.
You have to run long and then run some more.
It takes time to build up to 26.
2 miles.
But on the way, you get in better shape.
You get to the point where you enjoy not only the actual run, but look forward to it.
You miss that particular struggle when you can't run! What would your life be like if you actually missed the struggle to achieve when you were sidetracked? You would be so motivated to get back to work that you'd do whatever you could.
Getting distracted would become the struggle instead! When you reach that point, you know you have broken through to the highest levels of performance there is.
So you can struggle ALL YOUR LIFE.
..
to end a failure.
Or you can struggle for PART OF YOUR LIFE...
to end a success.
It means you shouldn't give up because this success/getting rich/winning a championship stuff is hard...
Of course it is! Your path in life will require struggling of some kind.
Which path are you struggling on?
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