I think that one of the greatest feelings in the world is pushing yourself to your breaking point and coming out on the other side. Getting through tribulations and becoming better off because of it is great. Sure, it sucks going through it. There's not a person in the world that likes pain and suffering. They say that the most successful people in life are ones who have a sense of delayed gratification. They know that going through struggles will ultimately make them more successful, happy, rich, etc. It's so easy to take the route of instant gratification. It's easy to sit on the couch and throw your life away because its EASY. The harder route would be doing something productive. It could be as simple as working out, or reading a book, or helping out around the house. All these tasks give me a lightened conscious and I feel better because I have done it. Now, I'm as guilty as anyone of taking the easy way out. By no means am I one who often chooses the difficult route of delayed gratification. But we all know that amazing feeling of seeing results by doing the hard things. We all know that great feeling where the hard work pays off. Now tell me that feeling isn't the greatest feeling. To know that your long hours of hard work and dedication has paid off is a feeling of immense euphoria. Often the challenging things are the ones you do when no one is looking. That's when they matter the most. I think I'm starting to realize that. To quote an otherwise mediocre movie, in Rocky Balboa (the last one) , Rocky gives a word of advice to his son that goes like the following...
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world aint all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are , it'll beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it aint about how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!
Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you are worth! But you got to be willing to take the hits and not pointing fingers saying you aint where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that aint you! You're better than that!"
Go out and get what you're worth.
