Almost without exception every single one of us has to struggle in life. We know all too well that nothing that we have ever achieved of meaning has been easy, and understand that the way we learned to appreciate its value was because of the sacrifices made.
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One could say its not that intuitive. We want to be happy, we want to live a life of peace, but the way that we understand value and appreciation is with contrast.
Try to think about this for a second, if you had no reference of cold, How could you know what heat means? If you had no reference for colors, if you were blind, How could you tell blue from green? In many ways the experiences we collect work as contrasts to help us understand.
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
As a mental exercise picture yourself right now having everything you want. All your problems taken care of, your debt, everything. Try to reach inside your mind and ask yourself if that sensation of relief, or joy is becoming reality or your tricked perception is just as effective. Can you see what I mean? For a split second your ability to leave your current situation and have that contrast made you smile.
Some might say that appreciating the bad times sounds a little ridiculous. Why would they be called bad if there was anything good about them? But if we accept them, and try to learn from those experiences, not only will we become more effective but hopefully more grateful.
There is a famous quote I constantly like to remember when thinking about this:
“It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.” - Herbie Hancock
I can’t seem to find a single flaw with that line of thinking because I’ve come to accept that there is no such thing as an easy life. Even those who we think have one, have their own struggles to deal with as well.
This is exactly why when I’m feeling a little down, I try to remember this truth I learned so many years ago. I try to think about the fact that everything worth achieving always had a cost to be paid and carry on. Maybe the magic trick here is just learning to appreciate the grind as they say…
Almost always less is more and life is really that simple, we just tend to complicate ourselves.
Hope everyone had a pleasant weekend
Cool to see you quote Herbie. He's one of my favorite jazz composers and musicians. My favorite quote by him is
And being a human involves the perception of obstacles and the gradual dissipation of them by increased awareness. With no friction, life would be bland and meaningless. With too much activity, life is hell. Finding that balance is so important - and often so elusive.
I love reading your article, we have to learn a lot in this writing. There is no value in the world, thank you
In the hard times is when we must take advantage of the lessons of the past, what you say is worthy of admiration since many are overwhelmed and sometimes the solution comes by a simple reflection, I liked this article very much, thank you for sharing it!
@ chbartist yes i,m agree with you and you are right struggle is the name of life. But Life is always give you opportunity. aAvoid making the mistake of wasting our time. And time on urgent and unimportant tasks, a person must complete prioritize a daily.I am very much happy to see that others doing the same and this would become the culture on the steem ecosystem.
Thank you for everything you do to improve this already great platform. Much appreciation from me!
HAHAHA, that is so funny.
I think that @chbartist posts are great for handgun sales. If the NRA get a Steem account they will surely upvote @chbartist.
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Organized point of view, the point about life is we should reconsider every single direction taht our mind is going to guide us in major decisions but in daily routines, there is no need doing that. As i always said: MIND IS THE KING...
take a look at my last article too...
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That's nice of you
This comment would normally be considered spam. Considering how all these other comments are making me nauseous I will not downvote you.
Well, first of all I just upvoted your comment as you took time reviewing it, regardless of how I agree with you, but I whould be appreciated if you let me know the reason you found my comment like a spam ... 🙏
Before putting a link to your post, you need to contribute more to the post that you are commenting on. For example, make an interesting observation and then follow that up with what you have done in your post. You used an incomplete sentence followed by a link. Many could see that as possible spam. Other people could see this comment and downvote you.
ok, now I understood your point...
I'm very appreciated that you took time and explaining, I do respect it and updated my previews comment.
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Thank you very much for your words @searchnew
GREAT ONE THERE
yes i ma agree with you @searchnew
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I agree
Mistakes happen and you can't avoid all of them but the thing matters is to learn from mistakes to perform better in future. It is a fact that life is full of experiments and today each and every development humans achieved is by learning from mistakes and by preparing better next time.
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If you start from SCRATCH then you will work 3 YEARS without MONEY and fame. ONLY preparation to fly.
nice thinking
Just what was on my mind and you've put it here already... Thanks
you are an inspiration for me you posts help me a lot in my day to day life. thank you
Yes, Mr. @chbartist, You are absolutely right because the struggle is the second name of life without struggle we can't enjoy our success effectively. We all have to think about self and do something for us to that we can live happy without exception we have to struggle in our life because if we don't know where we want to go then how can be reach there. I appreciate your effort because You are motivating people through your blog that really a great job that's why I can't stop myself to resteem your post.
Thank you so much for sharing with us :-)
Thank you so @amar15. Success...
@chbartist is doing a great job creating struggle for steemians like you.
Yes, You are absolutely right and I appreciate his effort.
Thank you @mightyblueberry :-)
Hey @chbartist great post. I agree with you on everything here and would like to elaborate on a couple of your points for your readers. I like the question you pose, "Why would they be called bad if there was anything good about them?. A point I would like to make in agreement with you is this, bad and good are subjective concepts. For example, imagine a billionaire losing $10,000. Most likely they wouldn't give it a second thought. It may not be ideal in their mind but they most likely wouldn't look at it as a bad thing. However, if an average man with a wife, two kids, mortgage, car payment, etc. were to lose $10,000 they most likely would perceive it as being devastating. And all because of their particular view on it which changes for everyone. I think its important for both your readers and mine to remember that concepts like good or bad, concepts that are subjective, that aren't the same for everyone, really hold no weight or value other than what we give them. So a major step in changing ones life for the better is simply to monitor what you give weight/importance/value to.
I also wanted to touch on another thing you said which I very much agree with. You mentioned a quote by Herbie Hancock (a great one by the way) and added that you've come to accept that there is no such thing as an easy life. Early in my military career, in order to help persevere certain training I was going through at the time, I knew I needed to tell myself something to keep pushing me through the pain and adversity. So I came up with the mantra (feel free to use this as well) An easy life is an empty life. That mantra kept me going through numerous times in my life as a reminder that there is nothing to learn when travelling the safe road and that everything I had in my life that I loved and cared for was earned through hard work. Anyway, thanks for a great post. You got my upvote and I'll be following you immediately to read more of what you post. Take care and be well.
GG
Your comment is better than this post. I wish you all the best on this platform.
Hello @gorillaguru, Thanks for your words and your great comment. I would like everyone to make comments like yours because this shows the true network interaction and that is the most important thing for mimi. I'll give you 100% of my vote I would like everyone who has written comments and will receive my vote or not, vote in your comment. I wish you the best! You are very Kind Person.
@gorillaguru Thanks for your words and your great comment
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What are you, the best? Thank you so much for your kind reply. I couldn't have wrote my comment without a great post like yours so thanks again for that great post. Take care and be well. I look forward to reading more from you
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Hello @chbartist, I'm surprised that one of your labels is Venezuela.
I am Venezuelan, and we are in this country struggling to get out of our economic crisis, personal, this has caused us problems and, in turn, the departure of so many families. And then, here I always say yes, we begin to cry, to regret, we do not solve anything.
If we are in a strong crisis, but personally I say it in my family, thank God, we have a house, and some blessings that now benefit us in this crisis that we do not have to pay the rent, nor live on the street, then in each crisis, we must see the strengths, here I grew up, I studied, I formed my family, here, I have until now, my way of generating income plus Steemit, who entered our lives to not enrich us, but managed to solve problems with additional income.
Life is beautiful, it is one and you must bless it and thank it every day.
I like your reading, keep it up, blessings for you.
@chbartist through his excessive vote buying is reducing the rewards pool. That means less opportunity for you to earn on Steem. @chbartist is not being kind, he is being greedy. Do not fall for his spin.
Peace
We have to make tought choices. Listen to your inner voice. No second guess.
Have good day.
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Hello, I am your inner voice '@chbartist is a scammer draining the rewards pool to feed his fame fetish. Time to vote elsewhere, time to vote elsewhere.'
Desejo a todos bem, mas você precisa se concentrar em si mesmo. Você precisa parar de colocar a mão para fora. Todo mundo quer distribuir as mãos. Todo mundo quer coisas de graça. Você tem que colocar no trabalho. Você tem que moer. Você tem que passar pela luta, e você tem que conseguir.
@chbartist
Another great thought from your side. I also think that your bad times help you realise the value of good time.
If someboy has not gone through the bad time he will not respect the time and also will not value that.
People want to have success but its better to remember the cost that we have paid to achieve that.
Nice Post.
Thx @worthtrick
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This guy is draining the rewards pool and preventing you from earning on this platform. He is a greedy mofo.
I'm of the mind: if you don't have some obstacles in life to overcome, you should go find some.
You have done well finding the @chbartist obstacle. @chbartist creates obstacles for all of us by draining the rewards pool with his greedy vote buying. He uses @smartmarket to make it look like he has support from the community.
great stuff
It's good find obstacles that make you grow better and stronger and ofc happier XD
Yes...its true...we all complicated our lives......
Nice post.
Please upvote me I need upvote
You would get more and higher upvotes if it was not for @chbartist's excessive vote buying. Please sir, I encourage you to support other better more genuine content.
If you want to get success or everything then you should not stop try to struggling.
Without the struggle there is nothing in the world for you.
Then if you get success , then the world is enough against you struggle.
So keep struggling, you will get success one day.
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Seeing this post I am getting inspired. I don'n know why but I lose my hope often and suffer a lot. I need boosted inspiration.
If you find this post inspiring then you are probably quite stupid.
@chbartist is draining the rewards pool with his excessive vote buying. Be smart don't support his greedy ways. Take a look around, there are plenty of real inspiring posts that can give your life a lift.
Tough days make tough investors~~
Rightly said , nothing comes easy , everything comes with time and dedication. , I can relate to the above because I have e practically gone through all in my life and I am still going through it , learning never stops , we have move on and face all challenges
In the tough circumstances is the point at which we should exploit the exercises of the past, what you say is deserving of esteem since many are overpowered and now and again the arrangement drops by a basic reflection, I enjoyed this article in particular, thank you for sharing it!
Very Well Written @chbartist
A big thanks for the Motivating post.
Have a good time.
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La vida está en constante movimiento, desde su principio físico básico hasta el más espiritual. La energía que no se mueve, no existe por lo tanto en esa posición estática, no hay vida, solo quietud.
La vida es una contradicción permanente, entre lo que somos (desde los átomos), lo que nos rodea y lo que aprendemos a diario. Y la felicidad no se encuentra en lucha contra el caos, ni en quedarnos estáticos simplemente contemplando. Creo que se trata de aceptarlo y fluir con él. Entender que las dificultades son parte de la vida, y en lugar de armar el aspaviento por los que "nos tocó pasar", seguir fluyendo y resolver un obstáculo a la vez. Todo está entramado, y cuando lo entiendes, somos capaces de disfrutar las dificultades con la misma plenitud que los recursos abiertos. Porque ambas forman parte de una TODO.
El post está muy bueno, pero no tomemos por cierto que sólo podemos ser virtuosos si pasamos MUCHAS dificultades... lamentablemente, los grandes de la historia han vivido su don en permanente contradicción con su caos interior (es decir, las musas contra los demonios) pero no siempre tiene que ser así, porque podemos hacer que las dificultades saquen lo mejor de nosotros y entender que la "lucha" es sólo la vida, siendo ella misma. FLUIR, no es pasividad, sino entendimiento para asumir cada tarea por vez. Eso creo... Felicidades por el post!
Yes sir @chbartist, it is really a good feeling to reach the pinnacle of life when you reached it with struggles. There's no reason for celebration if there's no struggles in reaching our dreams for sweet is the success when we overcome the bitterness of life. Thank you sir for sharing your lessons of life...
@chbartist
Another great thought my friend .I fully agree that nothing of value comes without struggle and nature has its own examples to prove it. The diamonds get their hardness and sparkle only after having withstood the intense pressure upon them for many years at a stretch.
Thanx
Thanx@chbartist for upvoting my comment
Thanks for the awesome read!
Grammatical glitches make your writing harder to read, and they turn readers off.
Content may be king, but you’ll gain a lot more respect and credibility if your writing is just as brilliant as the ideas you convey.
And by brilliant, I mean clean.
When your writing is clean, readers understand where you’re coming from. And the more your readers understand and respect where you’re coming from, the more likely they are to share your content.
As editor of Brazen Careerist’s blog, Brazen Life, I often see the same errors in submissions for our site. If our smart contributors make these mistakes, chances are you make them sometimes, too.
So next time you write a blog post, whether it’s a guest post or for your own site, check it over for these errors:
For starters they are not his ideas, they are the ideas of others that he is merely quoting. The post contains more than just 'grammatical glitches'. Most third graders could write better. I also see very little depth to any of the discussions presented. This turd of a post would not make the trending page of any other websites on this planet.
@irfan786 I appreciate your comment but I would like you to know that the inflês is not my native language, however I speak 4 languages and life is always an apprenticeship. People also make grammatical errors in their comments but I do not care about this because I'm sure many of them are not writing on their native stringers. What is most important is that the intention, the attitudes, and the message are understood.
I'm not search for Shakespeare (s) on steemit. I'm search for honest people
But, thank you again!
Regards and all the best!
Thanks
I remember how I feel after a conquest. I would usually imagine how all the pain and how I have doubted each step until that very moment of accomplishment, and I will smile. This has given me pleasures several times and I tend to be motivated to encounter more in future endeavours. I am the type that can't even stay without work ... I just want to work, I feel alive working and through this, I find new interesting meaning to life
I took a moment to translate it, and it was worth every second that it lasts reading, it is very deep and full of truth, many times, we let small things collapse our big world ... very affective thank you very much. Greetings from Venezuela.
Yes sir , you are right without hard working even we can't grow on steem platform mostly people came here to only earn money but they don't want work that hard and eventually they fail . your msg inspired to work even more harder
I like it myfrend
He is not your friend. He is depriving you of opportunities through his excessive vote buying.
I totally agree with you on this
And what I always say is that life is not hard, what you go through in achieving your goals and dreams is what is necessary to attain the life you wish to.
I completely agree with your thoughts..!!
Tough time never last but tough people do..!!
There is theory of change and another theory of permanence..!! We need something to measure change some constant ...!!
Same with life obstacles are permanent. It's definition changes ...!! Few fights for bread fee for money and land ...!!
But only those who succeeded who fought all odds, obstacle and got glory, rest kept finding excuses and dreaming.
Keep posting on diverse topics :-)
Excellent post @chbartist, it's really like that, many times we complain about everything bad in our life, but if we knew it's just a workout, I always believe that after the storm the sun rises, I accept my failures to enjoy my triumphs.
@chbartist Si, casi siempre menos es mas... y nos vamos dando cuenta al pasar de los años, y seguimos creyendo que todo lo malo suma para bueno :) pero no siempre tenemos esa certeza, ya que en los momentos malos nos sentimos devastados y abatidos con la vida, por un fracaso... pero la idea esta en nunca rendirse y siempre mirar hacia Adelante... "Fracasar no te hace una fracasado, rendirte si" Me gusto mucho tu publicación y me dejo pensando mucho, por el motivo de que no me siento sentía tan positivo como ahora... Gracias, tu publicación me dio un aliento de motivación no dejes de publicar..
Gracias @anderson18
Excelente articulo, aunque apreciar la rutina tambien va mas depende el tipo de personas, hay unas que no soportan la rutina, quieren y viven constantes cambios, situaciones nuevas, desafiantes, y hay otras que los cambios los prefieren de a poco, pausadamente, y disfrutan la tranquilidad y la sencilles del momento...
“If you're struggling today, remember that life is worth living and believe that the best is yet to come. Remember that you are loved, you matter, and never forget that there is always hope.”
― Germany Kent
People must realize that there is a difference between tasks of importance and urgent tasks, where some urgent tasks are less important than the previous one. In order to manage time and use it effectively, and avoid making the mistake of wasting time on urgent and unimportant tasks, a person must prioritize a daily, weekly or monthly list
Exactly @roselover. All the best!
Good Day chbartist,
Your piece is truly inspiring and motivating. As we all see, the world is changing every now and then.. ..and it involves everything!!! As the world change we ourselves change especially on how we adapt and accept things in life ( lifestyle, dealing with stress and problem, point of view, coping up challenges,dealing on competition in life, etc.)... If one will have the openness to accept all these things in life and willing to bear all things and do effort despite of the challenges , then one will harvest the sweet fruit and beauty of life .... Like what you said: life is really that simple, we just tend to complicate ourselves.....
So lets be simple and go with the flow.....
Yes my friend its true..
Thank for your valueble post!
A few months ago, i lost my business and i was very depressed. I just gave up. Somehow i managed to pick myself up, it was hard at first because i had lost confidence in myself. Then i read a quote that goes like this, "past performance is not a guarantee of future result". I realised that i had to learn from my bad experience and move on
I believe that if you dont have bad experiences, your life is incomplete. It is how you respond to those experiences that makes all the difference.
Thank you for sharing. I've had some huge challenges lately and have felt very tested. I keep thinking back to a time years ago when I lost everything but gained the most spiritual connectedness of my life. I keep asking myself why I haven't been able to achieve that again. I think I'm getting there. I've been bound by the wrong things for a while. I'm releasing some things and starting over with fresh eyes. I feel like the path is beginning to appear again in front of me, & your post is another guide mark on that path. I hope you also feel better soon. Have a blessed day.
life is the struggle of @chbartist, from this post many things can be done. thank you @chbartist for sharing something useful in living life
NICE POST @chbartist ,you are absolutely correct .Without struggle we can't attain any heights in our life.We must overcome the obstacles that come to our life.Your words are really motivating me.Write more posts like this.BEST WISHES
You too @sandeepadiuara
You're right, many times we do not appreciate the routine, but when we do not have it ... we realize how important it was. I learned that, when a great friend, who had a routine life, came one day from the supermarket and went to bed ... when she woke up she could not get up anymore ... she could not walk anymore, and then she missed her routine. He could no longer go to the supermarket or do the things he did every day and that he never valued. They detected a tumor and unfortunately no longer found between us .... That made me think of how little we appreciate what we have and especially the routine we have to go every day to work, school, shopping, cooking, and although they are small, they are very valuable if the time comes when you can not do them anymore... We value all the things that God allows us to live because, however small and insignificant they are, they are very valuable.
All the best @blessed-girl - Great words!
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Perfectly written.... One can relate to the post... And yes there is no easy life.... Life is a grind and we should enjoy the grind to be happy..
best comment today!
All the best @mukund83
I'm totally agree with you In life, people are exposed to a number of problems and challenges, and it is only when such obstacles are tackled will a person be able to be successful. Success can never be earned by staying idle and this implies that it is important to put an effort to increase the chances of becoming successful in life. Hard work has always been encouraged starting from the time when a person is still young. Parents are used to telling their children to avoid in order to do well in school. Studies have also shown that hardworking students tend to excel in both their academics as well as extracurricular activities. Therefore, struggling is one of the most important components that differentiate between a successful person and a failure.
Hardwork is the key of success.
Completely get on your side @chbartist about the fact LIFE IS A STRUGGLE.
We must pay attentsion to our goals rather than on unimportant tasks to succeed.
@chbartist thanks for this wonderful thoughts, I'm new here and reading this brings joy. Yes, you're right, we're bound to face obstacles in life, even on a daily basis but how we manage a particular situation we're in really matters, because it might affect us postively or negatively. Let's take it a day at a time. Thanks once again.
@cathyberry