Facing Challenges in Life

Alright I am going to be straight with you, more brutally honest than anyone you will ever meet. Life is not easy, life is going to eat you up, spit you out and then make you put yourself back together. Life works against you, life does not want you to succeed. Life strives in your struggle. Every challenge you face, gives you two choices. You can back down, and let that challenge take advantage of you, and beat you down, and make you hide beneath the shadows where you will not even be able to recognize yourself. Or, instead of letting that challenge defeat you, you can defeat it. You can show it who is boss, you can use your secret weapon. Yourself. Because you are much more powerful than you think. I always tell people we do not succeed at things when the conditions are ideal. For what is there to succeed at when things are perfect? We succeed through our struggle, and we can only feel accomplished by actually overcoming something. Picture this, your distant uncle passes away, and having no close family of his own, you inherit his fortune. Turns out, your distant uncle was richer than you could even imagine. You inherit millions, and you are set for life. You never have to work, hell you never even have to speak to anyone again. You could literally lock the door to your mansion in the Hollywood Hills and order everything you needed to your doorstep and you would be fine. But at the end of the day as you lay in your pool drinking a glass of Dom, you stop for a second. What was his name? You never even learned his name, knew the color of his hair. saw a twinkle in his eye. Who was this man who made you rich, and what did you do deserve it. Do you feel accomplished? Did his money make you feel accomplished? I am not asking if the money made your life better, because it might do that. it might even make you happier, but did it make you feel accomplished at all? No. Because you did not struggle to earn that money. There was no blood, sweat or tears involved. Your hands never even got dirty, because instead you used them to enjoy the fruits of someone else's labor. So, instead of constantly buying lottery tickets, hoping one day the lucky number will be yours, go out make yourself something. Work hard at something you love, and money will come. Because something more important than money, is success. Because while both are often associated with one and other, they are not the same thing. Success is the greatest feeling in the world, and it is one accomplished through struggle, your struggle, and your ability to rise above a challenge, and defeat it.