On Suffering and Working Hard for Your Goals.....

Hi, dear friends!

Some people assume that knowing what they want in life and wanting it deeply can compel them to do hard things.

Achieving your goals or realizing your dreams demands a certain amount of struggle, something that a lot don’t understand when they set out to do these tasks.

This goes against their inner desire to be comfortable, and that creates the greatest adversary that they have to face.

This path is dangerous, and our mind fights back against the idea of hard work and struggle, since it wishes to stay within the boundary of our comfort zone.

It was once difficult for a friend of mine to get around the idea of having to work hard in order to achieve something. He was simply not used to struggling, and wanted everything to turn out the way it is supposed to.

Then again, he also couldn’t shake off his dreams and big ideas. I once told him something that forever changed his outlook and attitude toward pain.

I simply told him that tolerating pain is in inevitability of life. We cannot run from it. It is always seeking us out. If we do not tolerate the pain of hard work, we will have to tolerate much worse kinds of pain in the future as a result of our laziness.

Would you prefer to suffer the pain of hard work which gives you something, or the pain that will eventually seek you out and give you nothing in return?

This may sound like an overly general argument, but it is not just about big outcomes in life. Let us imagine this solution with a practical circumstance.

Imagine that you want to get a job as a teacher of another foreign language from an institute or a school. You know that you need this job for the money. In order to get it, you have to study hard for the next 6 months.

If laziness towers over and you lose the 6 months, you are not going to be able to get the job. In this scenario, you have exchanged the pain of studying hard over a long period of time to an utter and irreversible pain of rejection.

Even more so, you will be in big trouble since you needed the job for money. As you see, ‘pain’ will eventually catch up with us.

Do not gamble on the struggle of today and the pain of tomorrow. Obviously, one is preferable to the other. You only need to think about your priorities and set your mind straight.

Be courageous enough to take the path of wisdom; which is the struggle that comes with gaining something, and not the pain that comes with losing your opportunities.

One group wins in life and the other is doomed to lose.

Which group do you want to be in? Decide today!