I define ?hard work? as work that is challenging. Both hard work and ?working hard? (i.e. putting in the time required to get the job done) are required for
success.
A problem occurs when people think of challenging work as painful or uncomfortable. Does challenging work necessarily have to be painful?
No Wholesale Braydon Coburn Jersey , of course not. In fact, a major key to success is to learn to enjoy challenging work AND to enjoy working hard at it.
Why challenging work? Because challenging work, when intelligently chosen, pays off. It's the work that people of lesser character will avoid. And if you
infer that I'm saying people who avoid challenging work have a character flaw,
you're right? and a serious one at that. If you avoid challenging
work Wholesale Yanni Gourde Jersey , you avoid doing what it takes to succeed. To keep your muscles strong or your mind sharp, you need to challenge them. To do only
what's easy will lead to physical and mental flabbiness and very mediocre
results, followed by a great deal of time and effort spent justifying why such
flabbiness is OK, instead of stepping up and taking on some real challenges.
Tackling challenges builds character, just as lifting weights builds muscle. To avoid challenge is to abandon one's character development.
Now it's natural that we'll tend to avoid what's painful Wholesale Ryan Callahan Jersey , so if we see challenge as purely painful, we'll surely avoid it. But in so doing, we're avoiding some very important character
development, which by its very nature is often tremendously challenging. So we
must learn to fall in love with challenge instead of fearing it, just as a
bodybuilder can learn to love the pain of doing ?one more rep? that tears down
muscle fibers Wholesale Brayden Point Jersey , allowing them to grow stronger. If you avoid the pain, you miss out on the growth. This is true both for building muscles and
for building character.
While a common philosophy says to go with the flow, the downside to this belief system is that you must yield control of your life to that flow. And
that's fine if you don't mind living passively and letting life happen to you.
If you feel you're here to ride your life instead of drive it, then you'll have
to accept where the flow takes you and learn to like it. But sometimes the flow
doesn't go in a healthy direction. You can go with the flow and end up in a
pretty screwed up situation if you don't assume more direct control when needed.
On the other hand, there's the alternative way of looking at life with you as the driving force behind it. You create and control the flow yourself. This is a
more challenging way to live but also a much more rewarding one. You aren't
limited to those experiences that can only be gotten passively or painlessly ?
now you can have much more of what you want by being willing to accept and take
on bigger challenges.
If I only went with the perceived easy flow of my life Wholesale Ondrej Palat Jersey , I'd never have learned to read, write, or type; those were all challenges where I felt I was going against the flow of
what was easy and natural. I wouldn't have gotten any college degrees. I
wouldn't have started my own business. I certainly wouldn't have developed any
software. No way I would have run a marathon ? one doesn't exactly flow into
such a thing. And I most certainly wouldn't be doing any public speaking. This
web site wouldn't exist either; it was definitely an entity created more by
drive than by flow.
I do believe there is an underlying flow to life at times, but I see myself as a co-creator in that flow. I can ride the flow when it's headed where I want
to go, or I can get off and blaze my own trail when necessary.
When you step up and learn to see yourself as the driver of your life instead of the passive victim of it Wholesale Alex Killorn Jersey , then it becomes a lot easier to take on big challenges and to endure the hardships they sometimes require. You learn to
associate more pleasure to the character development you gain than the minor
discomforts you experience. You become accustomed to spending more time outside
your comfort zone. Hard work is something you look forward to because you know
that it will lead to tremendous growth. And you eventually develop the maturity
and responsibility to understand that certain goals will never just flow into
your life; they'll only happen if you act as the driving force to bring them to
fruition.
When faced with the prospect of saying to yourself, ?If I always avoid hard work, I'll never in my life get to experience X, Y, or Z Wholesale J.T. Miller Jersey ,? it's a little easier to embrace the benefits of hard work. What will you miss out on? You'll probably never run a marathon,
marry the mate of your dreams, become a multi-millionaire, make a real
difference in the world, etc. You'll have to settle for only what going with the
flow can provide Wholesale Tyler Johnson Jersey , which is mediocrity. You'll basically just take up space and die without really having mattered. The world will be pretty
much the same had you never existed (chaos theory notwithstanding).
If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work. Hard work makes the difference. It's what
separates the children from the mature adults. You can keep living as a child
and desperately hoping that life will always be easy, but then you'll be stuck
in a child-like world, working on other people's goals instead of your own,
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When you learn to embrace hard work instead of running from it, you gain the ability to execute on your big goals, no matter what it takes to achieve them.
You blast through obstacles that stop others who have less resolve. But what is
it that gets you to this point? What gets you to embrace hard work?
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