The Brutal Truth that Ultimately Makes Life Beautiful

If you want something in life, you also have to want the costs of getting it.

You simply can’t have a destination without a journey. And a journey always has costs...

So instead of only thinking about what you want, you also need to ask yourself:

“What am I willing to give up to get it?”

Or, for those dark hard days:

“What is worth suffering for?”

Seriously, think about it…

If you want the six-pack abs, you have to want the sore muscles, the sweaty clothes, the morning or afternoon workouts, and the healthy meals.

If you want the successful business, you have to also want the long days, the tough business decisions, and the possibility of failing a few times to learn what you need to know to succeed.

And the same general philosophy holds true for HEALING any source of pain in your life. you have to want to WORK through the pain, step by step.

Regardless of what you want the next chapter of your life to look like, you have to consistently DO things that support this idea. An idea, after all, isn’t going to do anything for you until you do something productive with it.

In fact, as long as that great idea is just sitting around in your head, it’s doing far more harm than good. Your subconscious mind knows you’re procrastinating on something that’s important to you. The required work that you keep postponing causes stress, anxiety, fear, and usually more procrastination. It’s a vicious cycle that continues to worsen until you interrupt it with positive ACTION.

That's the brutal truth!

The best action you can take right now, though, is changing how you THINK about the actions you need to take...

And there is a path. I’ve personally walked this path myself many times. More than once in my life, the weight of dire circumstances had me STUCK to say the least, and I was avoiding the very actions I needed to take to heal and move forward. But, by changing my thinking, these circumstances became the proving ground for achieving renewed happiness and beauty in my life.

The key is to understand that no matter what happens, or what challenges you face, you can choose your response, which dictates pretty much everything that happens next. Truly, the greatest weapon you have against pain, anxiety, negativity and stress is your ability to choose one present thought and action over another. You must train your mind to make the best of what you’ve got in front of you, even when the journey is harder than you expected.

Keep your chin up man.