Embrace difficulty.
Consider it the key condition for a successful life.
When I see a happy marriage, I don’t become miserable because my relationship with my partner is not like that. Instead, I think, “How many fights did they have to overcome, and how many obstacles and false beliefs did they have to break to get where they are right now?”
I know in order to get there, I have to experience pain, fail, and touch the bottom in order to be able to reach the top.
Knowing that, I am looking forward to difficulty.
Actually, I am happy when I realize it is happening because I know better times are coming.
Hardship is the ease that has still not surfaced.
Ease is born in hardship.
Ease is metamorphosed hardship.
Ease is resurrected hardship.
To enjoy is to suffer immensely.
Long enough exercised struggle becomes an overnight success.
Long enough exercise skill becomes overnight talent.
We are born to solve hard tasks, overcome difficulties, and endure pain.
The size of the man is the size of the struggle he went through.
A couple of thoughts on pain and difficulty from other people:
Andrew Tate
Difficulty and value are inexorably linked.
The only thing that gives said objective value at all is its difficulty.
If money was everywhere,
along with huge piles of gold, on every street corner - it would have no value at all.
Understand that it is the difficulty that delivers the DESIRE at all.
YOU WOULDN’T WANT IT IF IT WASN’T HARD.
Therefore..
Complaining that it’s hard is a LOGIC FAIL.
People complaining about things being hard is as stupid as complaining things are valuable.
"Getting a 6 pack is hard" = "Getting a 6 pack is valuable"
Be glad it’s hard.
If it wasn’t you wouldn’t want it.
Or you’d already have it along with everyone else and nobody would care.
Hard to make a million bucks, that’s why it’s worth..... a million bucks.
If it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be.
I always say to replace the word HAVE with GET for an instant mindset shift.
"I GET to go to work today"
Here’s another:
Replace the word HARD with IMPORTANT and you will instantly see how motivation appears from thin air.
"Making money is important"
"Being in good shape is important"
Yes. It is.
This allows you to eliminate the need for willpower,
experience the world in a new light,
and find a mental fortitude you never knew existed.
Now... What will you do with it?
Polina
Suffering begets growth.
If you don’t break, you’ll transform.
Nat Eliason
The more hard things you push yourself to do, the more competent you will see yourself to be. The proof you can do hard things is one of the most powerful gifts you can give yourself.
Prove you can do hard things.
The ability to do hard things is perhaps the most useful ability you can foster in yourself or your children. And proof that you are someone who can do them is one of the most useful assets you can have on your life resume.
Never forget it’s all a game. It’s supposed to be hard. And it’s supposed to be fun. When you're under insane stress, remember it's all an insane game. Life doesn't makes sense. So enjoy every part of it. - Zach Pogrob
“Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger."- Keanu Reeves
“ I told myself that if something’s worth doing, it’s not going to be easy.” - Guy Hands
Helen Keller, who became the first deaf and blind person in the United States to earn a college degree, on perseverance: "A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
This reminds me that I’m not only doing hard things because I care about them… but because living the alternative is so shockingly unappealing to me. - The Tonic Newsletter
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” - Seneca
Lawyer Julie Yip-Williams, who was born blind, on the paradoxes of life:
"I do not have the answer to the question of why, at least not now and not in this life. But I do know that there is incredible value in pain and suffering, if you allow yourself to experience it, to cry, to feel sorrow and grief, to hurt. Walk through the fire and you will emerge on the other end, whole and stronger. I promise. You will ultimately find truth and beauty and wisdom and peace. You will understand that nothing lasts forever, not pain, or joy. You will understand that joy cannot exist without sadness. Relief cannot exist without pain. Compassion cannot exist without cruelty. Courage cannot exist without fear. Hope cannot exist without despair. Wisdom cannot exist without suffering. Gratitude cannot exist without deprivation. Paradoxes abound in this life. Living is an exercise in navigating within them.
I was deprived of sight. And yet, that single unfortunate physical condition changed me for the better. Instead of leaving me wallowing in self-pity, it made me more ambitious. It made me more resourceful. It made me smarter. It taught me to ask for help, to not be ashamed of my physical shortcoming. It forced me to be honest with myself and my limitations, and eventually to be honest with others. It taught me strength and resilience."
Source: Letter to her daughters (July 2017) via Letters of Note
I am super sick as I write this.
At least I had fun with my girls yesterday.
This post ends up expanding instead of narrowing.
Sending love, and wishing you health and life betterment.
-Angela Bobic